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A court order , signed byJudge Bennett Cullison, In District ld Court In Mills County Monday,to decreed that the Iowa StateHlgh-in way Commission engage the services of Peterson Mortuary and x, Raynor, Lett Kent Funeral3d Home, both of Glenwood, to dis-o) Inter, remove and reinter the remains of unidentified humanremains from a site at the west edge of Glenwood.The court order follows an application by the Iowa Commission, which Is proceeding with the re-locating and building of U.S. 34 Expressway around Glenwood. The application stated that the state archeologist had been en-eth gaged in a survey of the proposed tor route and reported the finding of what they termed an abandoned at- community cemetery, believed ast to be started about 1853. Frag-rn- ments of gravestones had been found by highway construction ss, workers and surveyors, as well tn- as, a Skelton of what was believed ra- to have been an Indian teenage to girl. On May 7,, about twenty-five gravesites had been found, as believed to be those of white lie persons, dating from approved mately 1850.ay The archeologists then concluded that the gravesites were significant of a family cemetery and did not contain any pre-historic, archlological orpaleontological significance, and that this burial site lacks the , broad , state and national Interests .*J.aott signmfeiuirt^es^iorits preservation. ,gj The court order requested the■jq Highway Commission proceedwith the highway building project as scheduled^ and that the Glen-s.^ wood morticians would disinter10remove and reinter the remains 7 in the Glenwood cemetery. It further ordered that all costs and expenses for such disinterment, transportation and reinterment shall be paid bythe Iowa State Highway Com-mission.Although the court order now clears the way for progress of the highway commission's project, there are plans by archaeologists to return to the area In hopes of uncovering more Indian finds.Adrian Anderson, assistant state archaeologist, who has probed the hills of the Pony Creek i area for the past few years, f said archaeology crews, includ-• ing anthropology students, will descend on the site later month for a two-month dig. They hope to discover more Indian graves and to excavate an Indian house found near the cemetery.Anderson added that the Indian skeleton, found April 29, is undergoing detailed studies at the state archaeology lab in Iowa City and that its age is believed to be about 130 years.l fen
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Glenwood Opinion Tribune
Glenwood, Iowa, US
Wed, May 19, 1971
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