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St. Joseph Cemetery (Manchester, New Hampshire)

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Saint Joseph Cemetery is a Corporal Work of Mercy of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire. It is administered in his name by the pastor and people of the Cathedral of St. Joseph, Manchester. Situated on on two sites, the older in Manchester and the newer in Bedford, New Hampshire, it has served the Catholic families of Manchester for over 160 years.Early yearsThe first recorded burial in what is now Saint Joseph Cemetery was that of Bartholomeu Quinn, who died July 2, 1848. Father William McDonald, Manchester’s first permanently assigned Catholic priest, acquired land on a hillside overlooking the city’s West Side, more than two miles (3 km) from downtown when Mr. Quinn’s death made the establishment of a Catholic cemetery a necessity.For more than twenty years, Father McDonald administered the cemetery from his rectory office at Saint Anne’s Church. The only known references in print, however, refer to it simply as “the Catholic cemetery in ‘Squog.” “‘Squog” is the nickname given to a broad expanse of land on the banks of the Piscataquog River near its confluence with the Merrimack River, all on Manchester’s West Side.By 1869, the Catholic population had grown too large for just one parish. Bishop James Augustine Healy of Portland, Maine, to whose diocese Manchester still belonged, sent Father John O’Brien to assist Father McDonald by establishing a new parish, this one dedicated to Saint Joseph. Father O’Brien was succeeded by Father Denis Mary Bradley, who would go on to become New Hampshire’s first Catholic bishop. Under his pastorate, control of the cemetery was ceded to Saint Joseph parish. The cemetery has borne Saint Joseph’s name ever since.

Address: 448 Donald St, Bedford (New Hampshire) 01904
Phone: (315) 252-5137
State: NH
City: Bedford
Street Number: 448 Donald St
Zip Code: 01904
categories: landmark & historical place, cemetery


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