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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION
United States of American vs. 0.78 of an acre, more or less, Civil Action in Stone and Barry Counties, No. 1356 Missouri, comprising twelve cemeteries in said counties Tracts Defendants Address F-608 Hammers Cemetary Mr. and Mrs. Leo Holt, next of kin of Infant Holt, desceased Lampe, Missouri Tony Hammers, next of kin of R.F.d.#3, Mt. Vernon, MO Perry Hammers, deceased, Mattie Hammers, deceased, John Smith Hammers, deceased, John Hammers, deceased, Louisa Hammers, deceased, Visie Yates, deceased, and Infant Hammers, deceased. G-705 Hardin Cemetary Amelia Dahms, next of kin of Johnnie Dahms, deceased Oroville, CA Unknown next of kin of Amanda Finnigan deceased Unknown Unknown next of kin of Philip Finnigan, deceased Unknown Unknown next of kin of unknown deceased person Unknown Deceased persons buried in Hadin Cemetary H-805 Oswalt Cemetary Unknown next of kin of Samuel Smith, deceased Unknown Unknown next of kin of Unknown deceased persons buried In Oswalt Cemetary Unknown H-880 Yates Cemetary Henry T. Yocum, next of kin Lampe, MO of Infant Yocum, deceased Ola Yocum, deceased, and Daniel Yocum, deceased Clara Stultz, next of kin of Muncia, IN Alta M. Little, deceased, Alma Mae Bluyue, deceased, and Lofford Bluyue. James G. Schwyhart, next of kin of Duncan, OK Clifford Schwyhart, deceased, George Schwyhart, deceased, and Marget Schwyhart, deceased You are hereby notified that a complaint in condemnation has heretofore been filed in the office of the clerk of the above named court in an action to condemn for public use, in connection with the Table Rock Dam and Reservoir Project, all right, title and interest of the next of kin in and to the cemetaries described in Exhibit A heretofore attached, including the right to disinter and reinter in other locations, together with all burial rights of third parties in said cementaries, the area of which cementaries in the aggregate consists of 0.78 of an acre, more or less, in Stone and Barry Counties, Missouri.
The authority for the taking is the Act of Congress approved April 24, 1888 (33 U.S.C. 591), and the Act of Congress approved March 1, 1917, as amended (33 U.S.C. 701), et seq.), and the Act of Congress approved July 2, 1956 (Public Law 641-84th Congress), which act appropriated funds for such purposes.
You are further notified that upon the filing of said complaint an order was made by the court granting to the plaintiff the immediate right to disinter and remove all bodies of deceased persons now lying buried in the above-designated tracts, and to reinter said bodies in a site known as the Joseph Philibert Cemetary, in accordance with a plan of relocation known as Cemetary Relocation Plan Assemlby No. 3, Barry and Stone Counties, Missour, promulgated by the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, Little Rock District, Little Rock, Arkansas, in May, 1957, a copy of which assembly was filed in this court on September 30, 1957 in Civil Action No. 1351. Table Rock Reservoir Stone County, Missouri White River Tracts H-880 Contend George Yocum, next of kin of Lampe, MO Joseph Yocum, deceased, and Matilda Yocum, deceased Mrs. L.V. Holt, next of kin of Lampe, MO John Yates, deceased, and Mary Yates, deceased. Unknown next of kin of unknown Unknown Deceased persons buried in Yates Cemetary G-1711 Galaswell Cemetary Unknown next of kin of J.A. Laswell, deceased Unknown Unknown next of kin of unknown Unknown Deceased person buried in Galaswell Cemetary R-1801 Thompson Cemetary Unknown next of kin of ____Barnes, deceased Unknown Unknown next of kin of ____Barnes, deceased Unknown Unknown next of kin of unknown Unknown Deceased persons buried in Thompson Cemetary F-1832 Henson Cemetary Unknown next of kin of unknown Unknown deceased persons buried in Henson Cemetary DD-3010 Leonard Cemetary Unknown next of kin of unknown deceased Unknown persons buried in Leonard Cemetary DD-3012 Andoe Cemetary Artha Blasingame, next of kin of Lampe, MO Eola Andoe, deceased, Orea Rose, deceased, Manda Rose, deceased, Paul Andoe, deceased, Silas Andoe, deceased, Infant Andoe, deceased Hershel Leonard, next of kin of Mary E. Andoe, deceased Berryville, AR Tracts DD 3012 Cont'd Unknown next of kin of Butler Boggess deceased Unknown Unknown next of kin of Elizabeth A. Leonard, deceased Unknown . Unknown next of kin of unknown Unknown deceased persons buried in Andoe Cemetary FF-3238 Hale Cemetary Allen Clark, next of kin of Eligah Clark, deceased Neosho, Mo. W.T. McCullough, next of kin of T.O. Hale, deceased Berryville, AR Unknown next of kin of T.B.P., deceased Unknown Unknown next of kin of Ellis Hale, deceased. Unknown II-3531 McCord Cemetary Unknown next of kin of unknown Deceased persons buried in McCord Cemetary Unknown KK-3706 Cole Cemetary Unknown next of kin of unknown deceased persons buried in Cole Cemtary Unknown You are hereby notified that a complaint in condemnation has heretofore been filed in the office of the clerk of the above named court in an action to condemn for public use, in connection with the Table Rock Dam and Reservoir Project, all right, title and interest of the next of kin in and to the cemetaries described in Exhibit A heretofore attached, including the right to disinter and reinter in other locations, together with all burial rights of third parties in said cementaries, the area of which cementaries in the aggregate consists of 0.78 of an acre, more or less, in Stone and Barry Counties, Missouri. The authority for the taking is the Act of Congress approved April 24, 1888 (33 U.S.C. 591), and the Act of Congress approved March 1, 1917, as amended (33 U.S.C. 701), et seq.), and the Act of Congress approved July 2, 1956 (Public Law 641-84th Congress), which act appropriated funds for such purposes. You are further notified that upon the filing of said complaint an order was made by the court granting to the plaintiff the immediate right to disinter and remove all bodies of deceased persons now lying buried in the above-designated tracts, and to reinter said bodies in a site known as the Joseph Philibert Cemetary, in accordance with a plan of relocation known as Cemetary Relocation Plan Assemlby No. 3, Barry and Stone Counties, Missour, promulgated by the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, Little Rock District, Little Rock, Arkansas, in May, 1957, a copy of which assembly was filed in this court on September 30, 1957 in Civil Action No. 1351.
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