> 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 > > > >