Old St. Joseph's Cemetery | |
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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 |
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The Old St. Joseph's Cemetery is a cemetery in Cincinnati.
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History
Old 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]
Notable interments
- Larry Benton (1897–1953), football player[2]
- 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
External links
- St. Joseph's Cemetery
- Saint Joseph Cemetery a.k.a. German Saint Joseph Cemetery, Old Saint Joseph Cemetery at Find a Grave
- Old St. Joseph's Cemetery
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