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Subject: Catholic Cemetery @Tatnuck
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:27:26 EDT


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> >> From: michael <>
>> Subject: [MAWORCES] Catholic Tatnuck Cemetery Headstone Dedication
>> Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 16:07:10 -0500
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At 2:49 PM -0400 5/27/2002, I wrote:

On Monday, May 27, 2002, Memorial
> >> Day, at 10:00 AM, the Diocese of>Worcester's Bishop, the Most Rev.
>> Daniel P. Reilly, D.D., celebrated Mass in>St. John's Cemetery in the clergy
>> section. Immediately following, Bishop>Reilly dedicated a new headstone in
>> memory of the approx. 2000 Catholics who>were disinterred from Tatnuck Cemetery
>> in 1907 and reinterred in St. John's>Cemetery. Bishop Reilly read an
>> excerpt from an interesting history by Owen>J. Murphy, Jr., printed in a program
>> for the occasion. After Mass those in>attendance made their way to the newly
>> marked plot where the Bishop Blessed>the stone (as well as two "old" stones
>> from Tatnuck) and thanked and>introduced some of those responsible for the
>> day's events. He also read aloud>the inscription:"IN 1907 THE MORTAL REMAINS
>> OF 2000 OF THE REGION'S EARLIEST CATHOLIC SETTLERSWERE EXHUMED FROM
>> THETATNUCK CEMETERY IN WORCESTER AND REINTERRED HERE REST IN PEACE" This post is
>> based in part on a copy of the invitation, I submit it forthe List archives.
>
Then > >> michael < Asked: "Can the 2000 names be scanned
in or will the Diocese of Worcester post them on the Web?"

I am about to harvest the names of the Catholics whose deaths are recorded in
the Death Records for Worcester (Town of then City of). Having extracted
Catholic Marrage Records for the Region (1833-Sept. 1849), I know that this will
be a major undertaking. So as not to duplicate others' efforts, I have spoken
with Owen MurphyJr. about our (My son will assist me.) plan.He will help make
the database that results public, somehow.
In 1835 the third Bishop of the Diocese of Boston, Benedict Fenwick,
purchased less than two acres of land in the Tatnuck section of the town of
Worcester, Massachusettes. In 1876 Richard O'Flynn and his son collected the
remaing (at that time) epitaths from the 81 markers that were readable. Even by
then much was "destroyed, stones thrown down and broken and a general air of
neglect and desoluton pervaded this abode of the dead." (O'Flynn)
If anyone knows of any other list, or of any other attempts to create
a list of these people's names please respond on or off list. JJ






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