CUYAHOGA COUNTY OHIO - St. Lawrence Cemetery ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Gwen Oliver seeker@netwalk.com December 11, 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Name: St. Lawrence Cemetery Location: City of Independence, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. On the North side of Rockside Rd. .3 miles West of West Creek Rd. Owner: St. Michael's Catholic Church in the city of Independance. Inscriptions read: Feb. - Oct. 1992 by W.R. Wetsel Source: Cemetery Map Book at the Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Archives. St. Lawrence Parish established 1851. Church erected 1875. Cemetery started between 1851 & 1875 exact date unknown. Cemetery contains one acre. Offical Workers Progress Administration (WPA) project no.'s 465-42-3-467, 665-42-3-232. WPA map of the Cemetery shows 156 plots. More plots have been added since then. Per conversation with a Mr. Jermann at the cemetery, who was born in the area in 1922. There originally was a St. Lawrence Church on the site of the cemetery. It was a small wooden building about the size of a house. The services were conducted once a month by a traveling priest. Many of the people in the cemetery were from Ginting, Switzerland which is about ten miles from Basel. Almost all of these Swiss immigrants worked in quarries in Switzerland and they came to the Independence area to work in local quarries. When they got to Independence, Ohio they always checked in with the Blessing family. The Blessings would house them until they found a place to live. When they decided to build a larger church Mr. Blessing said he would contribute a large amount toward the new church if it was built in the downtown area of Independence instead of on Rockside Rd. which was out of the way. Row 14 Tom Leonard 1952 - 1986 Catharine L. Gabel 1855 - 1946 Ada May Meister 1885 - 1928 John L. Gabel 1878 - 1898 Frank Schoch 22 Jan. 1824 - 18 Dec. 1896 Frederick Jermann Dd. 14 Feb. 1886 Louis Halbeisen 20 Dec. 1852 - 13 Aug. 1896 Magdalenea Halbeisen 1848 - 1922 Louis Halbeisen 1883 - 1910 Frank Jermann 1845 - 1908 Kasimer Wisnieski 1844 - 1897 Amelia 1846 - 1916 Frank J. Lang 27 Aug. 1833 - 12 Oct. 1900 Maria Anna Lang 17 Sep. 1834 - 21 Feb. 1912 Frank Jermann 27 ___ Peter S/O J&R Hegle 3 May 1898 alter 30 Jahre Joseph Huegle 22 Apr. 1879 - 24 Dec. 1902 August Huegle 1 Apr. 1874 - 24 Dec. 1902 Mary W/O Emil Kling 1854 - 1916 Amelia W/O Emil Kling 1862 - 1916 Emil King 1862 - 1916 Alma E. 1892 - 1906 Charles 1878 - 1899 Frankie 1887 - 1889 Mary 1888 - 1889 footstones mother, father, Charles, Frankie ___ 1889 Jacob Effinger Roman Bender 1845 - 1897 Adeline Bender 1848 - 1929 Catherine Obst Gertrude 1891 - 1896 Row 13 Mary Budd 1924 - ___ Joseph 1916 - 1984 E. Bertha F&M Lang 13 Mar. 1895 - 27 Jul. ____ Sophia D/O F&M Lang 19 Feb. 1871 - 21 Mar. 1897 Johannes Huegle 19 Feb. 1891 - alter 64 Jahr Karl S/O F&K Schoch 1 Jun. 1873 - 11 Jun. 1890 Margaretha Gerhret 16 ___ 1811 - 17 Jan. 1890 W/O C.H. Fry Dd. 19 ___ 1889 29Y 11M 6D Catherine Cueni 12 Sep. 1812 - 30 Nov. 1888 Franz Jerman 1819 - 1888 Frank 1 Mar. 1898 - ____ Peter 29 Dec. 1860 - 19 Mar. 1888 sons of E&M Lang Maria EH___ Von F.A.M. Jermann ___ 1870 - ___ 1887 Jacob Banknecht 23 Jul. 1848 - 17 Feb. 1887 A. Edell 1884 Augusta 1915 Row 12 S. Blessing ___ 1869 Im Alter 13 Jahren Katharina E. ___ P&E Wild 11 Apr. 1870 - 23 Aug. 1872 Willie J. McMannis Dd. 25 May 1880 2Y 9M 14D August Seleg 5 Jan. 1871 46Y Mary Seleg 23 Apr. 1888 56Y John F. Stein Dd. 28 Feb. 1871 42Y Wolfgang Wild ___ 1871 41Y 7M 23D Camilius Pitohk 1902 - 1902 Valentine Greie 11 Jan. 18_5 - 2 Mar. 1872 Gabriel Fertig 18 Nov. 1872 alter 72 Jahr Christof Lang --- 1852 - 12 Apr. 1873 Anna W/O ___ Fertig Jan. 1871 Alter 71 Jahr Peter Wild 2 Jul. 1829 - 11 Mar. 1871 Joseph Jermann 1854 - 1920 Katharina hard to read Andreas Greif 10 Nov. 1802 - 11 May 1877 John F. Wirth Dd. 5 Aug. 1878 55Y member Co. A 37 Regt. O.V.I. J.M. Fuchs ___ 1831 - ___ 1878 Elisa 9 Mar. 1833 - 19 Dec. 1906 Catherine Effinger 1846 - 1878 Katharina bottom of stone buried Row 11 Mary J&M Grane hard to read can't read George Fodell Dd. 5 Mar. 1880 1W Catharine Fodell Dd. 5 Mar. 1880 3Y Arnold Fuchs S/O Andreas 12 Jan. 1881 5 Jahn 5__ Maria hard to read Wendel Moser 1844 - 1903 Vrana Moser 1828 - 1903 Frank Rothermel 1842 - 1903 Margaret Rothermel 1839 - 1925 Margaret M. W/O Conrad Fuchs 1872 - 1910 Anthony Rothermel 1873 - 1913 William J. Rothermel 1877 - 1926 Row 18 illegible James S/O J&R 11 Aug. 1878 - 10 Apr. ___ Margaret Kintur 4 1/2 ae. Amelia Gabele 1 Feb. 1866 - 1 Nov. 1868 small 2 foot spire no inscription Joseph Nunzer ___ 17__ - ___ 1877 Katharine Nunzer 24 Dec. 1804 - 1 Apr. 1868 Joseph Urmetz 1823 - 1900 Maria Urmetz 1830 - 1876 small 2 foot spire no inscription Johann Adam Anna Maria hard to read Johann S/O P&E Wild broken, hard to read Hemrida M. Bell 1 Jun. 1860 - 25 Jan. 1862 Austin Schmidt 1865? hard to read Caroline Hessler 1857 - 1946 monument base Agnes C. Schlund 1916 - 1986 Caroline C. Schlund 1916 - 1986 Agnes C. Schlund 1916 - 1986 Pempeo Turelli Dd. 1918 Mathilda Cresko 1865 - 1930 Antonietta Zona 1889 - 1914 Mansueto Magnani 23 Oct. 1882 - 1 Mar. 1914 ___ Dreher 25 Apr. 1844 - ___ Aug. 1911 Josef Mierzwinski 1845 - 1911 Theresia Bohringer 1855 - 1905 Leopold Huber 1866 - 1936 Katharine his wf. 1854 - 1946 Alma Strauss Dd. 15 Nov. 1913 Bertha A. Halflinger 1876 - 1913 Ann S. Goudy 1832 - 1911 Formerly W/O Wolfgang Selig Franz X. Zink 1847 - 1901 Sophia his wf. 1853 - 1911 Sophia 1883 - 1905 Maria Anna D/O G&C Gabele 11 Jun. 1863 - 11 Oct. 1865 Mary A. W/O E.J. Robinson Dd. 2 Aug. 1859 39Y Frank Zink 1891 - 1919 Maria Boesig 1819 - 1897 Adam Belle 21 Jun. 1831 - 20 Jan. ___ Peter Hartmiller Dd. 17 May 1851 18Y Frank L. Rothermel 1870 - 1945 Katharine W/O Landelin Eble Eine Geborze Waldeck 15 May 1834 - 9 Nov. 1857 Nikolas A. Schneider 8 Feb. 1838 - 30 Jan. 1859 Abert Deutep hib ruhetin Gott 16 Apr. 1801 - 31 Nov. 1867 Valentin Gehret hard to read John Rothermel Dd. 11 Jan. 1869 ___ ae. ___ Blessing hard to read Catharine Hays 1835 - 1919 W/O Jerimiah Hays George Buckholdt 1836 - 1920 Mary W/O 1838 - 1916 George 1865 - 1920 Loretta M. Weber 1892 - 1941 Oscar Coccardi 1915 - 1917 Julius Romeyn 1911 - 1918 baby Elmer F. Cecil 5 Jun. 1897 - 19 Jul. 1899 Joseph F. Cecil 25 Dec. 1849 - 14 Sep. 1932 Victoria Kromer Cecil 10 Dec. 1855 - 4 dec. 1920 Leo M. Cecil 19 Feb. 1878 - 7 Nov. 1955 three stones next to each other Alma Koblenzer Cecil 2 Feb. 1889 - 4 Jan. 919 Peter Geringer 1851 - 1899 Louis Jermann 1880 - 1947 Joseph Gaab 1827 - 1869 East of Row 18 on creek bank inside woods Fred Halbeise 1889 - 1913 illegible stone illegible stone ?? ---- Gwendolyn Hardesty Oliver OHGenWeb Coordinator seeker@netwalk.com http://www.usgenweb.org/oh/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohgenweb/ The OHGenWeb Project http://www.netwalk.com/~coliver/gwen/ Gwen's Skeleton Closet -- Thirty years of Personal Research