We are so grateful and sincerely thank all those persons (parishioners and non-parishioners) who helped clean up the cemetery, Saturday, November 5. More than 20 people scrubbed, dug, trimmed, hauled and even translated headstones for over 2.5 hours. We cleaned up some of the old damaged and undamaged headstones, dug up some which were buried and read or tried to read those weathered stones, particularly those we will have to replace. Some volunteers removed brush from the area in the cemetery where the children are buried.

One of the stones, translated from French, indicated the person was buried there in 1857. The cemetery holds some of the parish’s early history. We are working to restore the older stones so history will not be lost because the inscriptions have faded with time.