>Resent-Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:16:11 -0700 >X-Original-Sender: Suzanaward@aol.com Mon May 14 11:16:10 2001 >From: Suzanaward@aol.com >Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:15:57 EDT >Old-To: MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com, MOMADISO-L@rootsweb.com, > MOMORGAN-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138 >Subject: [MOMADISO-L] New Holloway Cemetery unearthed in MO Roadwork. >To: MOMADISO-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: MOMADISO-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <MOMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/510 >X-Loop: MOMADISO-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: MOMADISO-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > > 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 > >