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David

David Report 8 May 2017 19:03


While making a road through a university in Mississippi workmen came across several graves. Using X ray devices a further 7000 were detected.

The university is built on top of a former asylum :-0

I read the asylum cost $175000.00 to build. To exhume the 7000 will cost $3000 each.
To reinter them as much again.

The asylum didn't keep records or the university would have been built elsewhere
http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBAP7G9.img?h=768&w=1366&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1773&y=451

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Caroline

Caroline Report 8 May 2017 21:10

Looks like they've been finding bodies for a few years David. Sad to think that many people had unknown graves.

David

David Report 9 May 2017 02:58


In the period covered there was a Civil War, many might be slaves.

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Dermot

Dermot Report 9 May 2017 08:22

Elsewhere, have a scratch around amateur historian Catherine Corless & her awful findings in a Cesspit at a Convent in Tuam, Co Galway, Ireland - a horrific & inhuman disposal of dead infants.

David

David Report 9 May 2017 18:37


Horrible, for want of a better vocabulary. And they've no records !? :-|

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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 9 May 2017 22:02

well, don't forget that very recently they unearthed graves from Bedlam in London ............
and there are no records for them


or the graves in Ireland of the babies in the laundries

no records for them


so it's nothing new.


Not too sure why you posted this one .....................

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My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

David

David Report 10 May 2017 05:50


I posted the 7000 because I saw no other thread mentioning it.

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