Funerary and mortuary practices changed dramatically after the Civil War. Headstone transcriptions from 1849 to 1867 provide the only record of the early burials, although there are many buried without headstones.Ī standard form of recordkeeping for the cemetery began in 1867, for which there are two possible reasons. John, a hotel owner and politician from Springwells, lies a few feet from Matilda. The earliest stone found in the cemetery belongs to Matilda Rupley, whose death in 1849 preceded her father John by three years. Records show that burials next to the mission began in 1838, if not sooner however, the cemetery was not dedicated until 1840, making it one of the oldest, if not the oldest, Catholic cemeteries in Detroit still having burials.
Anne, blessed a mission in Dix Settlement that he named Holy Cross after Saint Croix in France. Vincent Baden, a Redemptorist priest from Ste. In 1835, just two years after the Diocese of Detroit was established, Fr. The cemetery originally fell under the care and jurisdiction of neighboring parishes such as St. Bits and pieces garnered from scattered documents and business records give us a timeline, but not a record of burials prior to 1867. The cemetery’s early history is a mystery, including what happened to the earliest burial records.
Holy Cross Cemetery is one of only three cemeteries owned by the Archdiocese of Detroit.
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