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R. L. Lee's Grave The grave is located one mile east of Oscuro on Highway 54. It is hoped NM State Highway Department will fence this grave and place a headstone. As a boy, I remember this grave being on the other side of the highway fence about 20 feet further back with a chain link fence protecting it. (?) At one time it had a picket fence. Was this grave moved? Why would this person be buried on the Highway right of way? If anyone has any information about R. L. Lee please contactus. Is there a newspaper article on Mr. Lee? Until I see proof on this story, I can not accept it.
There was a lone grave of an infant, the Holliday Baby, who was born ca 1900, died ca 1900. This was located about 1.1 miles north of Oscuro in Lincoln County on the West side of the fence on the ranch property, but not on the highway right-of-way. This small area was fenced for many years--first by a picket fence, then by a chain link fence. This grave site was well tended for more than 70 years by persons unknown. By the summer of 2006 when I made a trip to that area, the fence had vanished. I could not find the location of the grave. The Baby's parents were George and Alice E. Holliday. Alice died 02/08/1924 in Lincoln County aged 34 years, six months. What happened to George Holliday is not known. This grave was located in almost the exact location of the alleged Shorty Lee grave who allegedly was buried there. I have reservations that the spot marked by the NM Highway Department for Shorty Lee is correct, unless both Lee and the Baby's graves were in the same immediate area. The possibility of that coincidence is remote. One recent report said the Holliday baby remains (reported as twin babies) were removed to California and interred next to their mother. That would explain the fence being removed. The appearance of the Lee grave at the same spot but on the other side of the fence is mysterious and needs an explanation based in fact.
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