Rochester & Monroe Co., NY
I created some new pages on this site to sell off some of the books, postcards and other things that I no longer need. You can find them under the menu (to the right) and listed as Garage Sale.
If you live in the Rochester area, you can save postage charges by having me bring your purchases to an RGS meeting or you can even make a pick up at my house in Greece, NY.
A few days ago I posted the third of three lots of tombstones in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery that I copied this last summer. Holy Sep. has a kiosk in their lobby in which you can look up burials. So why did I copy three lots of tombstones inscriptions? Because they have re-burials from earlier Catholic cemeteries.
Lot 9 in the East Division is a lot made up completely of family plots. It also was one of the first lots opened in Holy Sep. in 1871. After Holy Sep. began then families began moving burials from the older cemeteries. There are 136 tombstone inscriptions dated before Holy Sep. began. I speculate that most of the re-burials came from St. Joseph’s Cemetery. That is because that cemetery was closed soon after 1871 because one of the railroads wanted the land for a railroad yard. In April 1872 the remaining burials in St. Joseph’s were dug up and re-buried in Holy Sepulchre. The procedure that used was that people could claim their family members and have them moved to the new family plot in Holy Sep. Those burials not claimed were also moved to Holy Sepulchre but no one has ever been able to tell me where they are located. If you look at the 136 early inscriptions in lot 9 East then you do find a large number of German names.
I have asked at Holy Sep. and the Rochester Diocese for names of people that were buried in St. Joseph’s Cemetery but no one seems to have any records. So these 136 early tombstone inscriptions are records not listed in the Holy Sep. kiosk. But because they are in family lots, later burials are listed together with the ealy deaths.
Here’s some news from the first week on Jan. 1909.
An inquest was held on Jan. first for Mrs. Ada Patchin. She was on a trolley on North Street on Monday Dec. 28 when she told the conductor that she wanted to get off at Woodward St. The conductor told her that they just passed Woodward. While the conductor was getting ready to ring the bell for the motorman to stop at the next street, Mrs. Patchin went to the exit and stepped off the moving trolley. She was taken to the hospital but she died the next day.
A child in Clarkson has been quarentined for possible foot and mouth disease. (Name not given.)
A debate is going on as to where to put a new railroad station. Some want to put it over the Genesee River just off Central Avenue. (The railroad station is on Central Ave. in 2008 but not over the river.)
At McFarlin’s Clothing Co. they have marked down men’s suits that were selling from $18 to $22.50 before Christmas to $16.50.
A. Perrez grocery on West Main Street is selling 3 pounds of Hamburg steak for 25 cents.
Banks are all paying 4% on deposits.
The Mabbett-Bettys Motor Car Company (Plymouth Ave.) will be selling the Cadillac model 30 for $1400. Meanwhile, Arthur McNall on S. Union is selling a brand new Pope-Hartford limousine for ONLY $3750.
