Cassia County ID Archives History .....Child's Bones Are Found In Declo Road Excavation October 8, 1931
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Book Title: The Burley Bulletin

  The finding of the bones of a child perhaps five years of age,when workman 
were excavating recently at Springdale for the new state highway No. 30 South, 
carries the reader back to some 75 or 80 years ago, when emigrants were treking 
through Idaho en route further west and were forced to bury their dead on the 
trail, along the way. No marks were around to indicate that an improvised grave 
had been dug by the pioneer of other days.
  Examination of the bones by the coroner and a local physician indicate that 
from the decomposition of the skull, which was about to fall apart, the remains 
of the child had lain in that spot for a number of years.
  The teeth and other bones seemed in fair state of preservation, but the skull 
had wasted away and had almost returned to the dust from which it came.
  The remains will be interred in Burley Cemetery by coroner Johnson, though it 
is impossible to mark the grave, other than an unknown, as time has erased all 
traces of perhaps a former crude mark, which might otherwise have disclosed the 
idenity of the child.

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