Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1904-03-12
BEAUTIFUL
"City of the Dead" Is the st.
Louis Cemetery of
Louisville.
1t Was Organized in 1867 and
1904 Are Now Buried
There.
Has Undergone Many Extensive
improvements in Recent
Years.
WORK OF SUPERINTENDENT HOLLAND

Louisville is noted for the beauty of
her cemeteries and the care which is
taken of them. The St. Louis cemetery
is fast approaching in beauty famous
Cave Hill, which adjoins it.
The Catholics of Louisville have reason
to feel proud of st. Louis cemetery, and
that they do feel proud of it is evidenced
by the fact that this city of the dead is
constantly being beautifed, not only by
the management, but through the indi-
vidual efforts of the lot owners Many
fine roadways have been built within the
grounds and the number of beautiful
monuments that are being erected every
year will soon make the place the equal
of Cave Hill. The cemetery is we'll stu
ated and the grounds are spacious, SO
much so that it will not be necessary to
add to the number of lots for many
years.
People have no idea of the large num-
Der of persons that are buried in St. Louis
cemetery. On March l of the present year
the number had reached the enormous
total of 24,894, making it one of the
largest cities of the dead in Kentucky.
st. Louis cemetery was established in
1867 by the Right Rev. Bishop Spalding.
1t was then "away out in the woods"
hard to reach on account of poor roads.
The grounds were in very poor shape.
The first person buried in the cemetery
was Antonio Gala, the records showing
that his interment took place April IA,
1867.
The Right Rev. William George Nc
Closkey is the present President of the
cemetery corporation, Very Rev. James
P. Cronin is the Secretary and Treasurer,
and George w. Holland is the efficient
Superintendent. He has been connected
with the corporation ever since childhood
and takes great pride in keeping up the
grounds. He is certainly the right man
in the right place. The improvements
made in the place during the past few
years certainly reflect credit on him. 1t
should be the aim of all who have rela-
tives and friends in the cemetery to assist
in keeping the place in good order. The
trees and shrubbery should be carefully
looked after by the lot owners. If this
is kept up st. Louis cemetery will be one
of the most beautiful in the whole coun-
try.
There are many beautiful monuments,
some of them very costly, and scarcely
month passes without adding new ones.
Among the number may be mentioned
the following:
James Rudd, an old Kentuckian, buried
in May. 1867; John H. Ryan, Bryan P.
Scally, wholesale liquor dealer; Francis
Reidhar, President German Insurance
Bnnk; Jacob Kellar, John Langan, Philip
Winkler, Shakespeare Caldwell, Isaac
Caldwell, Col. J. B. Steele, Henry Dep
pen, President German Bank; John d.
O'Leary, President Franklin Bank; John
L. Deepen, John Hayes, Phil Judge,
Basil Dorhoeffer, Marcus Dorhoeffer, M.
J. Doyle, J. P. Byrne, Martin Byrne,
William F. Mayer, Col. Mike Raidey,
Joseph Denunzio, George Wolf, George
w. Tarleton, William Patterson, William
G. Wetterer, Joseph Suding, James
McKegney, Michael Doerhoeffer, Mrs. |
Blanche Shelly.
Some of the monuments equal in APP
pearance any to be found in Cave Hill.
Every year the monuments erected are
better than in the previous year. The pre-
vailing material now used is granite.
Formerly marble was used, but of late
this has given way to the more enduring
stone, granite.
Recently Bishop McCloskey made
donation to the city of Louisville adjoin-
ing the cemetery grounds on condition
that an avenue would be opened up.
This has been done and the thoroughfare
is one of the best in the city and has
made access to the cemetery much easier.
Thousands of people now 60 to the ceme-
terry who never went before. This Is
true 10 the SUMMER time.