Mount Calvary Cemetery is located on an eighty acre tract of land on the southwest corner of Eisenhower and DeSoto Roads. The landed was purchased on September 20, 1865 for $3,200. It was surveyed March 3, 1869, and a map was drawn for G.T. Nells, C.E.. The first burial took place on June 12, 1869. The cemetery officially opened on June 20, 1869.
In 1979, William (Mike) Sachse, a professional engineer and member of the cemetery board, undertook to prepare an updated area map and maps of the individual sections. Up to the present time, there have been approximately 10,900 burials at the cemetery.
Mount Calvary Cemetery is under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. The cemetery office is located on the cemetery grounds. A new office building was built in the fall of 1992. The new building was occupied and opened in January 1993.
In July of 2016, daily oversight and operation of the cemetery was turned over to Catholic Cemeteries of Northeast Kansas, a ministry of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.
As a ministry of the Catholic Church, we bury the dead with dignity and respect; we comfort the living with compassion and concern; and we provide sacred space for remembering.
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