My Great Grandfather was not buried near the creek. At the time he was buried, wooden crosses were in use as material which was brought around the Cape and was used for both tombstones and fireplace surrounds. I guess there was no granite or marble then available. As mentioned, G Grandfather was a reinterment from the cemetery next to All Saints. That was very long ago. (My family, not me still has one of the fire place surrounds brought around Cape Horn).
In the sixties hippies and bad people living in the old castle rode through All Saints and using chains knocked down all the little tombs which looked like little houses. Desecration! Anyway, Great grandfather Martin is under one of the fire roads they cut through the cemetery at a later time. FYI - if your family goes ‘way back like mine, you might have kin in the Indian burial ground by Fairmont Hospital. My Great grandma Martin is there, having died in childbirth when young. I believe it is a potters field now, if still in use. The creek is a bad place for burials as it used to change course during wet years and I believe some of the graves were taken away. One year there was so much rain in Hayward salmon ran up the creek. I was really young then. My Gramps was always devoted to the Church and helped the priests and visited with them a lot. I remember swinging on the bell rope in All Saints when he was visiting, (he lived across the Street). I was too little to make it ring. Our Victorian house is gone and an apartment house stands on the land (much to my sadness). It hurts me to see that. I am related to Frank and Mary Silver who used to live in (gosh I haven’t been to Hayward for decades) on lower B St ( by where BART stops today). They kept pigeons, rabbits, goats in the back yard. They are buried in Mt St Joes. I used to go visit them at the cemetery until I moved away. They were first cousins. When Great Aunt Mary passed, Uncle Frank sat down in his chair and would not eat, and so he died a couple of weeks later. If you see a tombstone marked with their name and the same year of birth and death on the stone, that is them. They passed in the 40’s. That is such a good deed- your diligent work on the graves of our people. You have a good heart. I hope my little comments make some of those people alive for you. There was nothing like being raised in a Portuguese family back then. I am so glad I was. They were just the most loyal, honest, loving, hard working people on earth. Sent from my iPhone > On May 27, 2019, at 11:25 AM, 'celeste perry' via Azores Genealogy > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Dixie, > I have an uncle who died at the age of 3 months. My grandmother, Maria > Jose Ferreira Dinis, (born in Ponta Garca, Terceira) was always sad that she > and her husband, Joao Bernardo Sobral, did not have the $5.00 to have him > buried in his own grave site. So.....he was buried with a woman who was > being buried at that time. > > My grandmother was always sad that she did not know where her first born > was buried. About 20 years ago, I decided I would try to find his grave > site. Shortly before that time, there were volunteers who walked the > cemetery and recorded markers for those that were buried there. Not every > site had a marker and there was a portion of the cemetery they called the > "poor ground." > > There was a priest at All Saints Church in Hayward where there was records > of Mt. St. Joseph cemetery. The priest was born in the same village ( > Ligares, Tras os Montes) in Portugal where my grandfather was born. I > contacted the priest and let me have all record books for Mt. St. Joseph > Cemetery. > > It took me 2 years to search each entry of every book. At the same time, I > made a copy (in alphabetical order) of the names of those buried there. I > did not find the baby's name, however, I found the name of a woman who had > died the same day he had died and was buried in what was called (the poor > ground) I made the assumption that he was buried with her. > > So I walked the cemetery taking note of every grave that looked to me to > have been buried in "the poor ground." By this time, my grandmother had died > and I was never able to tell her my findings. > > I gave the church a CD of the records I put into alphabetical order. > > So, if you can get someone at the church to look, they may be able to tell > you more than that someone was buried "in the poor ground." > > Celeste Perry [email protected] > > -------------------------------------------- > On Sun, 5/26/19, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > > Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Mount St Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Hayward > (California?) > To: "Azores Genealogy" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, May 26, 2019, 9:51 PM > > Repost for Dixie > Schafir, > dschafir at aol.com > > The Mount St Joseph Catholic Cemetery in > Hayward > The original cemetery was where the priests > residence is today, next to the All Saints Catholic Church > on 2nd and D. When > the then new Mount St Joseph Cemetery was established my > Grandfather > Martin helped move the dead from next to All Saints Catholic > Church to The present St Joe’s cemetery. My > Great grandfather was among those moved. Then > the church itself was moved onto the former cemetery on 2nd > St and the > present Catholic Church was built on the site where the old > church > stood. 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