Showing posts with label Calvary Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Calvary Cemetery. Show all posts
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Friday, February 2, 2018
Michael Corcoran (Medal Of Honor) - Calvary Cemetery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Corcoran_(Medal_of_Honor)
Medal Of Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor
8th US Cavalry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Cavalry_Regiment
Indian Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars
Calvary Cemetery
Cleveland, Ohio
William Hurst - Calvary Cemetery
U.S.S. Jenkins DD-42
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jenkins_(DD-42)
Calvary Cemetery
Cleveland, Ohio
Stella Walsh (Olympic Athlete) - Calvary Cemetery
Stella Walsh (Stanisława Walasiewicz, Stefania Walasiewicz, Stanisława Walasiewiczówna)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82awa_Walasiewicz
Calvary Cemetery
Cleveland Ohio
Frank Petrarca (Medal Of Honor) - Calvary Cemetery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Petrarca
Medal of Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor
Calvary Cemetery
Cleveland, Ohio
John Towle (Medal Of Honor) - Calvary Cemetery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Towle
Medal of Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor
Calvary Cemetery
Cleveland, Ohio
John Carlin - Calvary Cemetery
Knight
Order of St. Gregory the Great
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St._Gregory_the_Great
Calvary Cemetery
Cleveland, Ohio
Anthony Carlin - Calvary Cemetery
Knight Commander order of St. Gregory the Great
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St._Gregory_the_Great
Calvary Cemetery
Cleveland, Ohio
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Ed Delahanty (Baseball) - Calvary Cemetery
Cleveland, Ohio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Delahanty
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Al Bart (Football) - Calvary Cemetery
Calvary Cemetery
Section 29, lot 51
Dayton, Ohio
Tony Furst (Football) - Calvary Cemetery
Calvary Cemetery
Section 3, lot 21
Dayton, Ohio
Carroll Hockwalt (Inventor) - Calvary Cemetery
Calvary Cemetery
Section 28, block x, lot 31, space 3
Dayton, Ohio
Chemist
Manhattan Project
http://www.daytonhistorybooks.com/building_the_bomb_in_oakw.html
Monday, August 24, 2015
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Clement Focke (Clemens Focke) - Calvary Cemetery
Section 1, Lot N197
Dayton, Ohio
“Clement Focke Comes Home”
Child’s Memorial Statue from 1888 Replaced by Descendants
Clement Focke was seven years old when he drowned in his grandparent’s farm pond in 1888. The bereaved family created a beautiful life-size marble statue to mark his grave in Calvary Cemetery. Over a century later, the statue fell apart and disappeared. The members of the Focke family spent three years planning and raising money to replace it.
Today their hopes of “bringing Clement home” have been realized. Dodd’s Monument delivered and installed the new statue with a larger base. The original statue was fashioned after a photograph of the young man leaning against a tree stump. The new statue is the same, but it is made of granite for increased longevity and a bas relief instead of a full body form for durability.
Edward Breen, family spokesperson and a great grand cousin of Clement said “This project brought together many Focke descendants who did not know each other. I started off by sending a letter to every Focke in the Dayton phone book, found some and then they contacted others. It has been nice to meet these folks and work with them to restore the statue.”
The family is planning an official blessing of the statue on Saturday, April 28 at 9:30 AM. Father Joseph Goetz will bestow the blessing. The Statue will be unveiled by Clements’s great grandnephew; a ten year old who will be dressed in period clothes like Clement is wearing in the photograph.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Frank Stanley (Gypsy King) - Calvary Cemetery
Section 14, Lot 17, Ely Mausoleum
Dayton, Ohio
STANLEY TRIBE OF GYPSIES SETTLED IN MIAMI VALLEY
King bought farmland, cemetery plots here
By Roz Young
lma J. Reichbauer wrote: `I think there is a fascinating story of gypsies in this area that is untold.
`I can remember many years ago reading about the big gypsy funeral at Woodland. Horse and buggies were lined up from the courthouse to Woodland Cemetery. The gypsies came from far and near. That has always fascinated me, as does the idea that their burial ground would be here in Dayton.'
Jim Sandegren, curator of the Woodland Cemetery Arboretum, had a letter from Sherry Stanley of Englewood, who has been researching her husband's relationship to the gypsies of Dayton, saying that she would like to know more about the Stanleys.
The Dayton gypsy story is indeed a fascinating chapter in Dayton history.
It began in England with the Stanley tribe of gypsies, a large family and the most prominent and influential of the gypsy tribes in that country.
In 1856, Owen Stanley, commonly recognized as the king of the gypsy tribes, and his wife Harriet Worden, his son Levi and his wife Matilda Joles, and many of their tribe came to the United States because the tight little island of England had become so densely populated that living there was becoming impossible for the free-spirited and free roving gypsies.
Shortly after arriving in this country, the Stanleys arrived in the Miami Valley. Owen called together his followers and told them that he had chosen Dayton as his permanent home. He would invest money in farmland so that his children, their wives and husbands and their children would have houses to live in during the cold winter months. Owen Stanley also purchased a large lot in Woodland Cemetery where all the tribesmen and women could be buried when the time came.
He bought a small farm northeast of Dayton, and there he lived with his wife Harriet. They pastured their horses there during the winter, and although they had somewhat peculiar lifestyles in the opinion of their neighbors, they never gave offense.
Others of the tribe bought land in Dayton, Harrison, Wayne, Mad River and Butler townships. They wintered here and rented out their farms when they took to the road as soon as the weather began to get warm. The men were horse traders and did some metal work. The women told fortunes.
The Rev. Daniel Berger, a United Brethren minister and editor for the U.B. Publishing Co., first learned of the gypsies in Dayton when Owen Stanley knocked on his door one day and asked him to conduct a funeral for a four-year-old boy who had died in Mississippi. His family had brought the body to Dayton for burial on the Stanley plot.
Berger was hesitant at first, supposing that perhaps the gypsies had rites he would not be familiar with. Stanley assured him that the family wished a service the same as for any other person, and Berger agreed to perform the rites.
`The burial was not attended by any unusual character,' Berger later said, `but I was impressed by the evident and deep sorrow for the loss of their child and the generous sympathy of the large group of relatives and friends .
`The service rendered on this occasion was the beginning of a long and friendly relationship with these people. ... I have been with them at the burial of their dead and occasionally visiting their sick during the period of a full quarter of a century, sharing in a good degree their confidences and, in some instances, their real affection. I have served them on more than 20 different funeral occasions, assisting them in burying their dead from the young infant to the more than centenarian, and from ordinary folk in the presence of a dozen or two immediate friends to royalty in the presence of thronging thousands.'
He performed the rites for Harriet Stanley in 1857. On her monument is the epitaph:
Harriet Stanley was her name,
England was her nation;
In any wood her dwelling place,
In God was her salvation.
Owen Stanley died in 1860. Owen's son Levi became king and his wife Matilda became queen. Levi inherited his father's title, although there was no law, written or otherwise, that established his rank.
`There is nothing more than a good man and a good woman,' he explained to a reporter. `Our people trust me and love me as they did my father and mother before me; that is all. They do pretty much as I tell them and we all work together, and that is all there is to it.'
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Mary Cleary (Actress) - Calvary Cemetery
Section 30, Building 5, Niche S12
Graduated from Julienne High School in 1942, attended University of Dayton
Studied dance with Hermione and Josephine Schwartz in their Dayton School of Ballet since early childhood; she and her brother Norman had roles in many productions at Renaissance Auditorium of the Dayton Art Institute, including Peter Pan
Came from a musical family, parents members of St Agnes and St Albert church choir; her Uncle Bob Spragg went to New York as a dancer
Went to New York at age 22, danced on Broadway
Cast in Goodbye, Mr. Fancy and then as Lt Ann Girard opposite Henry Fonda in Mr. Roberts, held the role from February of 1948 to January 1951
Played Nels Hansen’s girlfriend on Mama, the CBS TV series version of I Remember Mama, with Dick Van Patten in the role of Nels from 1949 to 1951
Also played Mary Aldrich on The Henry Aldrich TV show on NBC from 1950 to 1952
Was befriended by Helen Hayes (whom she considered her mentor) and Hayes’ daughter, Mary, who was an aspiring actress but tragically died of polio at age 19; Hayes was a fellow Catholic and small town girl
Met many future stars during her time on Broadway and early television including James Dean, Paul Newman, and Jack Lemmon. She had long time friendships with Florence Henderson (Carol, The Brady Bunch) and Isabel Sanford (Weezy, The Jeffersons) who started their careers on Broadway as well.
Met Jack Cleary, a widower with two small children, when he came to NYC on business, saw her in Mr. Roberts , and “swept her off her feet” .They married in 1952, and had their reception at Peerless Mill Inn.
They moved to Hope, Arkansas and had four children, then Jack’s business brought the family to Long Island, NY where she renewed her interest in acting.
She did commercials for Dash and Oxydall detergent, Jello (with her children Pat and Beth), and Alka- Seltzer and summer stock theatre with friends from her Broadway days.
She died in 1988.
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