In the same year and the year following, the remains of 76 deceased parishioners including 32 infants and children of from St. Joseph Stukenberg on March 29, 1874, 25 days after the land was acquired. The burial records, back then, were located in the church office and maintained by the pastor. A superintendant saw to the maintenance of the grounds and interment of the deceased. Sales for the burial plots were almost all made to the parishioners with proceeds going into the parish treasury.
A separate plot was reserved for Catholic priests as well as one for the Benedictine nuns who staffed St. Roads and walkways were laid off, the land was sanctified by the church and rules for the burial of deceased were established. The area was divided into four sections of about 50, 15' by 15' plots. It was the nearest possible land to the church at the time. Mary's Church, purchased ten and one half acres of land, which is now the northern section of the present Holy Cross Cemetery.
In March of 1874, the Benedictine Society of Westmorland County Pennsylvania, that held the patronage of St. The church was built in 1851 by the large number of German immigrants to the city who had formed their own congregation, in 1843, to have there services conducted in their native language. Mary's Catholic Church, on East Marshall Street, on the north side, between 3rd and 4th streets.
Holy Cross Cemetery had its beginning, in the year 1874, as the parochial cemetery of the original St.
0 kommentar(er)
