School hiding Mormon graves?

July 16, 2012

source: Columbus Dispatch

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MR says: An elementary school in Ohio is reportedly built over an old Mormon cemetery. Now that the school is closed, researchers can dig up the grounds.

A tiny northeastern Ohio cemetery containing the unearthed headstones of 19th-century Mormon settlers might grow if officials find more of the grave markers on the site of a recently closed school.

New Portage Cemetery in Barberton was fenced in about 13 years ago by local Mormon researchers, who had placed headstones there that had been found near a local elementary school.

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