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    1. [INCASS] Cemetery Found while building road
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    3. I hope no one gets to upset by my forwarding this. I just felt that if anyone might be related to the Holloway family they needed to get the word of this. Diana in Rush Co. Cemetery found! 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

    05/16/2001 02:57:50