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From: "Cathy Ailstock" <>
Subject: RE: Avoca Cemetery
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 19:50:02 -0400


Thank you Ed!
My James SWIFT was baptized there in December of 1889. Now my question is:
Does anyone know if they will do look-ups or if there is a cemetery attached to this
church. My family was, indeed Irish. I am aware of the St. John's being Irish as
many of my family was baptized there as well.

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Avoca Cemetery
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>
> For all those interested in St. Mary's R.C. Cemetery in
> Avoca, the address of
> the church is 715 Hawthorne St, Avoca, PA 18641, phone
> 717-457-3412 or
> 717-655-8218. I am not sure when the parish was founded, but
> my grandmother
> worked at the rectory in the 1890's. In those days, most
> Roman Catholic
> churches in the United States were established by the
> nationality of the
> majority of the members in the community. St Mary's would
> have been the Irish
> parish in Avoca. I believe that Sts. Peter and Paul was the
> Polish parish.
> It is also possible that each parish did not have its own
> cemetery. St. John
> the Evangelist Church in Pittston was also an Irish parish
> and they have a
> large cemetery. St. John the Evangelist R.C. Church is at 35
> William St.,
> Pittston, PA 18640, phone 717-654-0053.
>
> Ed Grace

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