Fight to save Historic Hoskins Cemetery escalates after Judge in Clay County, Kentucky rules in favor of School Board to unearth 70+ graves of Infants, Indians, Veterans, and others buried in the Cemetery during the past 125 years.
By Stella B. House, Attorney-at-Law, PSC
MANCHESTER, KY (June 10, 2022) - On Thursday afternoon June 2, 2022 legal counsel for the parties made their oral arguments before Clay Circuit Court Judge Oscar G. House regarding the Motions to Dismiss filed by the Clay County Fiscal Court and Clay County School Board (the Board”) in the state court action filed by the Friends of the Hoskins Cemetery (the “Friends”) regarding the proposed disinterment and relocation of the graves in the Hoskins Cemetery (the “Cemetery “). At the conclusion of the oral arguments, the attorney for the Board submitted a proposed Order to Judge House. Then, Judge House stated that he was taking the Motions to Dismiss under submission and granted me, as legal counsel for the Friends, until Friday, June 10, 2022 to submit a proposed Order.