Original Message----- From: Mary Wood <MWood@actionnet.net> To: OREGON-TRAIL-L@rootsweb.com <OREGON-TRAIL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, May 12, 2001 3:11 AM >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 > > > > > > >