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The Old St. Joseph's Cemetery is a cemetery in Cincinnati.
| Old St. Joseph's Cemetery | |
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| Details | |
| Established | 1843 |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 39°6′12″N 84°34′40″W / 39.10333°N 84.57778°W |
| Type | Private, Roman Catholic |
| Owned by | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati / Cincinnati Catholic Cemetery Society |
| Size | 200 acres (0.81 km2) |
| No. of interments | >20,000 |
| Website | Cincinnati Catholic Cemetery Society |
| Find a Grave | Old St. Joseph's Cemetery |
History
editOld St. Joseph's Cemetery was founded at West Eight Street & Enright Avenue, in 1843 by Reverend John Baptist Purcell. The cemetery received its first burials the same year, and there have been over 85,000 interments since.[1]
Currently
editToday, St Joseph Cemetery serves Catholics from all nationalities and backgrounds with dedicated, professional service. With 128 acres in its modern configuration, many burial plots remain available in choice locations. St. Joseph Cemetery has made preparations to assure that adequate space will be available for more than 50 years of future burials. The St. Joseph chapel and mausoleum, completed in 1998, has roughly 4,000 crypt spaces. Lawn crypts are also available for those who prefer in-ground interment. In 2013, columbaria were developed throughout the cemetery for above-ground burial of the cremated human remains.[2]
Notable interments
edit- Larry Benton (1897–1953), football player[3]
- Moe Burtschy (1922–2004), baseball player
- Heinrich Hoffman (1836–1894), Civil War veteran and recipient of the Medal of Honor
- Stephen Joseph McGroarty (1830–1870), Civil War general
- Clyde Vollmer (1921–2006), baseball player
References
edit- ^ Work Projects Administration, Writers' Program of Ohio (1943). Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors. Cincinnati: The Weisen-Hart Press. p. 463.
- ^ "Cemeteries We Operate | Cincinnati Catholic Cemetery Society". Retrieved 2024-06-16.
- ^ Lee, Bill (2003). The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of over 7,600 Major League Players and Others. McFarland Publishing. p. 491. ISBN 978-0786415397.