• Home
•  | 
• Login/Register
•  | 
• Help

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI
SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION

Defendants:
Henry T. Yocum, next of kin
of Infant Yocum, deceased
Ola Yocum, deceased, and
Daniel Yocum, deceased

George Yocum, next of kin of
Joseph Yocum, deceased, and
Matilda Yocum, 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

You must be logged in to post a comment regarding this story.