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- "The first, or among the first, to be buried in this cemetery were Henry Seiwald, 8, and Anton Seiwald, 9, the sons of Joseph and Theckla Seiwald. They had drowned in the Kansas River by the mouth of the Wakarusa River in 1864 and were buried in a pasture west of a farm home owned by Fred Eder. After land was donated for the cemetery, their bodies were placed in graves near the entrance on the west side. Their brother, Joseph, who died that same year at age 12 also has a grave near. He had wanted to play marbles with his brothers and a black child. Because they excluded him, Joseph kicked the marbles. The black child threw a wood chip at Joseph's right temple, causing Joseph to get tetanus and die later of lockjaw, according to a history of the Seiwald family."
- "However, wrote Father John Bauer in Holy Family Parish, Eudora, KS (1935): The ground for the cemetery, an acre or more, was presented to the parish by Peter Hartig. It is situated two blocks east of the church. It has no Crucifixion group, merely a cross of correct proportion set in a cement base. According to interment records, the first burial in this cemetery was that of Stephan Vitt, in 1867. The location is very convenient, but two blocks from the church, and just out of town. Since 1933 the cemetery is well kept, after the Pastor succeeded to arouse the pride of the parishioners in this respect. Old timers tell me that the cemetery never did look as pretty as the past two years.” The cemetery expanded in 1961 with a purchase of Rothberger land. Additional Rothberger property on the west and their home (later demolished with other buildings except the smokehouse) at the northeast corner of Ninth Street and Birch Street was traded for another house."
- "Barbara Seiwald wrote March 2, 2008: “I think it's possible that Stephan D Vitt who died 6/10/1867 could have been the first recorded death. The two Seiwald boys died in 1864, and the cemetery was not yet in existence. I think because 1864 is on the Seiwald stone, whoever compiled the history took that date literally and made the call. I don't find a written record in the church records of the Seiwald boys. I think the family just moved them from the Eder pasture at some point in time after the cemetery was donated.” "
- "Blechel, Eder, Greiner, Grosdidier, Gufler, Hadle, Kasberger, Madle, Koch, Moll, Neustifter, Rothberger, Schehrer, Sommer, Vitt, and Zillner are but a few of the other families buried here. Barbara (Reid) Seiwald, a cemetery overseer and author of Holy Family Cemetery, Deaths 1864-2002, said church records do not list early, unbaptized, or single lot graves." - History of Eudora, Kansas
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311 East 9th Street
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