----- Original Message ----- From: "Norma Adams" <njadams@erinet.com> To: <OHBUTLER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 9:03 PM Subject: [OHBUTLER-L] Fwd: Fw: Fw: [OBITL] Cemetery found! > Hi, > I received this on another of my lists. I hope they find the descendants > of these people. It doesn't give a contact person. > Norma > > > > > > This was in Tues, 8 May, Springfield MO News Leader, p. 5B: > > > > > > > > Discovery of cemetery halts roadwork--Associated Press-Kansas City-- > > > > > > > > Construction of a new highway in south Kansas City has been halted > > > by the discovery of a small cemetery dating back to the Civil War era. > > > State officials are anxious to find any descendants of the Holloway > > > family who are bured in the cemetery. If the heirs can't be found, the > > > state will have to get court permission to move the nine graves in the > > > plot, in order to finish a new Missouri 150. > > > > Construction workers recently unearthed a marble headstone, dating > > > from 1858, while moving a large section of water pipe. > > > > Archaeologists later found another headstone and evidence of seven > > > other graves. The site has not been disturbed further. > > > > -------- > > > > Please pass this on to other lists. > > > > > > > > Betty White > > > > Santa Barbara, CA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Norma Adams - Middletown, Ohio > Family Page: http://www.angelfire.com/oh/myfamilygenes > Gentry Records Page: http://members.tripod.com/~nanny_4/index.html > Mail lists I manage: WERNER-L, KYPERRY-L, BAKER-L, OHBUTLER-L > > > ==== OHBUTLER Mailing List ==== > To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a message to: > OHBUTLER-L-request@rootsweb.com or OHBUTLER-D-request@rootsweb.com > Put SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE (whichever you want to do) >