CATHOLIC GRAVEYARD
(Northwestern Pike)

The Roman Catholic Church bought an acre of land of
J. M. Stephenson, about 1857, and used it for a graveyard
for its many members who were attracted by the building
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

There have been many graves, but most of them have been
removed to the Catholic Cemetery on Fourteenth Street.
The graveyard is, for the most part, abandoned, and the
stones are scattered over the ground.

Among the names given are those of -
Bernard Rielly, Old Castel County, Meath, Ireland, 1850.
Catherine (his wife) Rock Curry County, Monaghan,
Ireland, 1864.
Edward, son of J. and M. Walsh, Parish of Balinore County
of Mayo, Ireland, 1868.
Adolph Reiser of Baden, Germany, December 26th, 1861,
aged thirty-one years.
John T. Flynn, born in Parish of Loonfinlough County,
Roscommon, Ireland, died July 15th, 1861, in thirty-seventh
year.
Stephen J. Sullivan, Parish of Ballyclough, County Cork,
Ireland, died 1863, aged thirty-five years.
John Marr, Co. G., 6th W. Va. Inf.
Corporal James O. Neal, Ohio L. A.

There is said to be a row of unmarked graves of negro slaves
in the northern end of the cemetery, in the first and perhaps
second row.

Up in the orchard, west of the Hopkins', by the side of a
little hollow, is a graveyard used for the slaves.  There are
several graves still to be seen among the briers and weeds,
but all the flagstone markers, many of which were standing
ten years ago, are down.  The hollow heads above this
orchard, in the Hopkins, or Graff, field.

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