Please add me to your list of picture takers this spring, i live about 65
miles away. Hopefully if we can get a group there we can cover alot of the
cemetery to help you out. You are doing a wonderful job and a very nice
thing to help the rest of us. Maybe we can help you, contact me at
genbug(a)bnin.net a weekend would work better for me, (but if needed i will
take a day off of work. I have family buried there also (Gerhart, Lowman)
Once again thank you
Ken Cowles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deb Beheler" <d003b(a)yahoo.com>
To: <INCASS-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [INCASS] Mt. Hope Cemetery Photos
Kathleen,
Thank you! Go ahead and send the photos and I will
get them up and linked by this weekend. Your family
history is so interesting! Wouldn't it be fun to go
back and visit with them for a little while?
Let me know when you are coming and we will select an
area for you to photograph. Thanks for volunteering!
Debby
Kathleen wrote:
> I already have photos of a few family tombstones
> from Mt. Hope/St. Vincent
> that I will send to you for the project. I live in
> Illinois and make one trip a
> year to Logansport for my genealogy research. I
> will definitely volunteer to
> take photos for you at Mt. Hope when I visit this
> year.
>
> My grandfather Patrick Francis FITZGIBBON had a
> saloon in Logansport on the
> corner of 12th & Erie circa 1905. He then owned the
> saloon across the street
> that became the famous Polsinelli's. Patrick's
> first wife was Anna Marie BYRNE
> who died of tuberculosis at the age of 26. Their
> daughter Mary Ann
> FITZGIBBON married George SMITH. Anna, Mary Ann and
> George are all buried at Mt.
> Hope/St. Vincent. Also, Anna Marie's sister Delia
> BYRNE MONEHEN is buried there
> with her husband James and son John, and John's wife
> Lavon. I have photos of
> all the tombstones.
>
> My grandfather married my grandmother Sarah RYAN in
> Chicago in 1915. They
> lived in Logansport in an apartment above the
> business with both of their
> widowed mothers. Mary HENNESSY FITZGIBBON died in
> January 1916; Catherine FOLEY
> RYAN died in August 1916 -- both of apoplexy
> (stroke). According to an employee
> of the old Polsinelli's Bar, the upstairs living
> quarters is supposedly
> "haunted"! If it is, the haunters are my two old
> Irish great-grandmothers who died
> there in 1916!! Patrick and Sarah moved to Chicago
> after Prohibition forced
> them to close the saloon. They had a grocery and
> butcher shop until the Great
> Depression when they lost that business, as well.
> My grandparents and
> great-grandmothers are buried in Chicago cemeteries.
>
> Kathleen Richmond
> Oak Forest, IL (near Chicago)
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