> 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 > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > ______________________________