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Article: Pruning reveals hidden graves at historic Pioneer Cemetery.
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- Journal-World (Lawrence, Kansas)
- Article date:
- July 17, 2006
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Byline: Dave Ranney
Jul. 17--When Kansas University crews recently began cutting down bushes in the Pioneer Cemetery on west campus, they made some historically interesting discoveries. Obscured for years by the overgrowth were graves and markers tied to the city's earliest settlers, including the resting place of a young recruit killed during Quantrill's Raid.
"It's great to see these old stones," said Lawrence historian Karl Gridley. Of the recently revealed stones, the refrigerator-size marker with the words Pioneer Cemetery commands the most attention -- it is visible from Iowa Street. But it's not the most historic of the findings, ...