Old St. Joseph's Cemetery

Old St. Joseph's Cemetery
Details
Established	1843
Location	Cincinnati, Ohio
Country	United States
Coordinates	39°6′12″N84°34′40″W / 39.10333°N 84.57778°W / 39.10333; -84.57778
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

Gravemarker inscribed in German in the old section

The Old St. Joseph's Cemetery is a cemetery in Cincinnati.

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

See also: Category:Burials at Old St. Joseph's Cemetery

• 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

1. 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.
2. 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 Archived 2008-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Saint Joseph Cemetery a.k.a. German Saint Joseph Cemetery, Old Saint Joseph Cemetery at Find a Grave
• Old St. Joseph's Cemetery ^{[ permanent dead link ]}