The article below was originally published in Bucyrus Journal, circa May 1886.
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The New Catholic Grave Yard.
Over 60 years ago in what is now the Henry orchard, a little plot of ground on the hillside, overlooking the thick woods that hid the few scattered houses of the unnamed village of Bucyrus from view, a grave was dug and Mrs. Lewis Cary was buried on her husband’s land; here too, lie the pioneer Daniel McMichael and by their side peacefully sleeps a number of others, and the first colored person ever buried in the county.
Fifty years have passed, and now, adjoining this spot, where a dozen of Bucyrus pioneers found a last resting place, Holy Trinity Catholic Church have selected their burial ground, and on last Sunday the first interrments were made there in the remains of Frank and Faustina Kronenberger, the brother and sister, who, at tender years were called within one week to again meet each other in the better land.
It was a fitting dedication to the new grave yard, that children, in the blessed purity of innocence, should first be called upon to consecrate God’s acre; for the Savior himself said: “Suffer little children to come unto me and forbit them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
