----- Original Message ----- From: "Michel & Sherri Harmon" <miksher@pacifier.com> To: <HARRISON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 10:35 AM Subject: [HARRISON] Fw: > > -----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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >