St Joseph Catholic Cemetery
This is an archived index from the Digital Cemetery.
6300 Quivira Rd
Shawnee, KS
GPS Location
39° 01' 29" N, 94° 43' 10" W
39.0172, -94.7228
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Legal Location
Section 11, Township 12S, Range 2
About the Cemetery
This cemetery is the southern-most of three adjoining cemeteries located on Quivira Rd in Shawnee. This cemetery originally served the St. Joseph parish and was established in the 1800s. The Catholic Cemeteries of Wyandotte and Johnson County, Inc. took over the care and maintenance of this cemetery in the 1960s.
The oldest marked interment is for Henry Frederick, d. 29 Jun 1865, aged 65 years, and there is a total of four marked interments from the 1860s.
Based on its location next to Shawnee Cemetery and its appearance, it seems that these two cemeteries started about the same time, separated simply by a line or space.
The land where these cemeteries are situated was originally patented to M. P Randall, a Shawnee Indian. M P Randall sold a portion of his land to the Shawnee Town Company, however the land where Shawnee and St. Joseph's cemeteries are located was not part of the original Shawnee Town.
The Heirs of Randall, consisting of Eliza, wife of the deceased M P Randall, and their children William, Mary Jane, and Julia Ann, sold the portion of land where the two cemeteries are located to Thomas Douglas. On 14 Feb 1874, Thomas Douglas sold this land in part to L. M Frink, Catholic Bishop of Leavenworth, for St. Joseph Cemetery, and to the Trustees for Shawnee Cemetery Association. At the time of this sale, both cemeteries were already in existance.
Based in the index of gravestone inscriptions, this cemetery shows a steady growth from its beginnings in the 1860s through its peak in the 1960s. Since 1976, interments in this cemetery show a steady decline.
Owner
Catholic Cemeteries Association of Wyandotte & Johnson Counties Kansas, Inc.
1150 N 38th St
Kansas City, KS 66102
https://cathcemks.org/
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