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A visit to the Saint Mary's Catholic Cemetery ...

Introduction ...

Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery (FG ID #2286352)

Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. Without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery was actually buried elsewhere.

We discovered that his burial had been refused at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.

Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.

The Location of the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery ...

Note: The GPS location that we are using for the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery has been estimated.<2>

We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery

Lat:   44.1017°   (44° 6' 6")

Lon:   -87.7034°   (-87° 42' 12")

The St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery is located in Manitowoc County<3>.

The county seat for Manitowoc County is located in Manitowoc. Manitowoc lies just to the east southeast of the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery .

Establishment of the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery ...

The St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery was established in 1851.

List of nearby cemeteries ...

Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 21 that are within 7 miles [11.3 km]<4> of the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery.<5>

We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, with the nearest first.

For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.

List of neighboring communities ...

The following 27 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km]<4> of the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities based on their distance from St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, with the nearest first.

For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.

Nearby communities with newspapers ...

The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery. The following communities are located in Manitowoc County.

More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities alphabetically.

  • Manitowoc
  • Two Rivers
  • Valders
    • Valders lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<4> to the West Southwest (WSW) of the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Valders.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valders

Websites to help with your research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery:

Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...

Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery:

Footnotes ...

<1>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<2>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Manitowoc, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.1017, Longitude: -87.7034    
<5>While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), you can be assured that it's not complete and our list will be missing cemeteries.
<6>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.