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Subject: [GEORGE-L] Fwd: [{SE-TN}] Re: [KY-CEM] Fwd: Kansas Cemetery
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 11:49:04 -0500

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Subject: [{SE-TN}] Re: [KY-CEM] Fwd: Kansas Cemetery
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In a message dated 5/10/2001 11:12:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> << 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.
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> Please pass this on to other lists.
>
> Betty White
> Santa Barbara, CA
>
> >>
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