Subject: FW: [PACE-L] Holloway Family Cemetery > >I am passing this on from another list. > >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 buried 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.