Rumors are swirling about headstones a builder encountered while digging at Kimball Junction.

“I’ve even heard that we dug up bones and it stopped our crusher,” said Dave Allen, a consultant for The Boyer Company, a developer working in the Snyderville Basin.

Some land near the intersection of Landmark Drive and State Road 224 might have been the site of a cemetery. And crews digging near Utah Olympic Park have encountered grave markers.

Allen said it’s unclear whether human remains are buried in the area. There are markers for two people who were born and died in 1933 and 1911.

“This area is not in any path of development,” Allen said.

The Boyer Company is building a road at Kimball Junction for a research park it’s developing near Walmart.

“We thought maybe we ought to just enhance this,” Allen said about the headstones that belong to George Sweeney Pace and Clyde Elisha Johnson.

Roosevelt resident Beverly Underwood says that would be fine.

The graves belong to her uncle and brother, Underwood said in a telephone interview.

“They better not try to move them because I hate fights, and I will fight,” Underwood said. “I promised my mother that they wouldn’t be moved. That land was dedicated for those two little boys: my uncle and my brother.”

The graves were once part of the Parleys Park cemetery, the 72-year-old said.

Underwood’s son, Shaune Underwood, said state law prohibits the abuse or desecration of dead human bodies.

“As long as I’m alive they will never be moved. I made a promise to my grandmother before she passed away that I will take care of the graves,” 50-year-old Shaune Underwood said.

The historic cemetery at Kimball Junction was situated near land which today houses a visitor center.

“Most of the people in Park City do not know that there was a cemetery there,” said Beverly Underwood, who was born in Park City.

“My one son, when he goes to Salt Lake, he always stops and picks up some flowers to put on the graves,” she added.

Shaune Underwood said at least eight people remain buried east of the Olympic Park.

Meanwhile, Allen said some road work has stopped so graves won’t be disturbed.

“We would like to find out who is there,” Allen said. “We are not digging anywhere in this area.”

Officials have discussed building a new cemetery on land Summit County owns at Kimball Junction.

“I’ve even suggested that they could be the first residents of your new county cemetery out there,” Allen told the Summit County Council at a meeting Wednesday.

Assistant State Archeologist Ron Rood said builders who encounter tombs may not destroy the graves.

“If they’re moving dirt and they hit a grave, they need to stop and report it right away,” Rood said in a telephone interview Friday. “If they have to move the grave, I hope that our office will be involved in terms of helping Boyer and their consultant, come up with a plan.”