2021 Fall Newsletter

Old Catholic Cemetery Location

Map image is from an 1901 Miamia County atlas

The first Catholic cemetery of the Paola Parish was on a point of a wooded hill, north of the old homestead of Robert McGrath, and now his heirs, on Wea Creek east of town. It was acquired in 1868, and in 1886, when the present grave-yard “Holy Cross” was purchased, near the Wea bridge, the few bodies were removed from the hillside to the new cemetery, three-fourths of a mile south. Over half of the coffins were decayed, as many of the bones, and there was not one stone, marble or granite marker. Tom McGrath and B. J. Sheridan helped with the removal

Page 18