Cemeterywolf Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 I went to this church on Jan. 9,2009. I needed to take photos of the St. Vincent Cemetery. The church was built in 1923. Got permission from FATHER RICK to go into the cemetery which is behind a locked gate. Sorry to say but the cemetery is not in great shape. I took photos in 1985 and it looked better back then. Loose stones are in their wrong spots. Turned over gravestones. Missing linch gates. Some gravestones grouped together and cemented on a concrete base. Benches and shade covers built over graves. Trash on grounds, tree limbs piled on top of graves. They need to take better care of this cemetery!!!!! Thanks George E. Wolf Jr. Cemeteries of Harris Co.,Texas www.freewebs.com/boneyardwolf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 (edited) I went to this church on Jan. 9,2009. I needed to take photos of the St. Vincent Cemetery. The church was built in 1923. Got permission from FATHER RICK to go into the cemetery which is behind a locked gate. Sorry to say but the cemetery is not in great shape. I took photos in 1985 and it looked better back then. Loose stones are in their wrong spots. Turned over gravestones. Missing linch gates. Some gravestones grouped together and cemented on a concrete base. Benches and shade covers built over graves. Trash on grounds, tree limbs piled on top of graves. They need to take better care of this cemetery!!!!! Thanks George E. Wolf Jr. Cemeteries of Harris Co.,Texas www.freewebs.com/boneyardwolf I agree wholeheartedly. In that last bazaar event, people were sitting and eating on top of markers and graves, truly appalling. Majority of parishoners are low income and either dont care to invest in time to clean or lack $$$ like most in the city. Regardless, the clergy and grounds keepers have dropped the ball in a most horrific way. Oy vey & Santo cielo! Edited January 16, 2009 by Vertigo58 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I agree wholeheartedly.In that last bazaar event, people were sitting and eating on top of markers and graves, truly appalling. Majority of parishoners are low income and either dont care to invest in time to clean or lack $$$ like most in the city. Regardless, the clergy and grounds keepers have dropped the ball in a most horrific way. Oy vey & Santo cielo! My friend was considering placing his child at this school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasVines Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 (edited) I agree wholeheartedly.In that last bazaar event, people were sitting and eating on top of markers and graves, truly appalling. Majority of parishoners are low income and either dont care to invest in time to clean or lack $$ like most in the city. Regardless, the clergy and grounds keepers have dropped the ball in a most horrific way. Oy vey & Santo cielo! depending on the race of the people sitting on those graves it would either be appalling or no big deal at all.....one large culture now in Texas sees nothing wrong at all with sitting on graves, stones, or markers because they view their dead and their observance of the dead in a much different fashion than many others do so while you might have seen it as disrespect to the graves or the dead they saw it as common ordinary behavior based on what they do as celebration in their own country and in no way viewed it as or intended it as disrespect to the graves or the dead in them Edited January 24, 2009 by TexasVines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cemeterywolf Posted January 26, 2009 Author Share Posted January 26, 2009 depending on the race of the people sitting on those graves it would either be appalling or no big deal at all.....one large culture now in Texas sees nothing wrong at all with sitting on graves, stones, or markers because they view their dead and their observance of the dead in a much different fashion than many others do so while you might have seen it as disrespect to the graves or the dead they saw it as common ordinary behavior based on what they do as celebration in their own country and in no way viewed it as or intended it as disrespect to the graves or the dead in them I am just saying they should take care of this cemetery. I don't care if they crawl all over the graves which we do not do in our country. It is in a locked gate and protected from the outside but is slowly being destroyed from the inside. Many buried here were Irish. I don't care where you are from, it still is disrepectful.......... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KewpieCleaners Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 My great-great grandparents are buried in St. Vincent's Cemetery. I don't think I like the idea of the plot being used for a bazaar! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic08 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I frequently drive/walk by this church and recently noticed that kids use this cemetery as a playground during the day...even saw one kiddo sitting on top of a headstone. I was shocked and think the adults in charge should not let kids run wild there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I was shocked and think the adults in charge should not let kids run wild there. Ditto! and sadly some of the parents are just as ignorant. Kids copy what they see at home. I was told by very long time patrons that alcohol was never even allowed in the past during bazaars. I recall the port o cans were even on top of graves. No use in arguing with some of the negative ones on Haif though. That section must be cordoned off somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaggieMay Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 (edited) My great-great grandparents are buried in St. Vincent's Cemetery. I don't think I like the idea of the plot being used for a bazaar!According to this article, there was an effort in the 1960's to clean up the cemetary. "Families of those buried here had an association once but the survivors are so far away they can no longer keep it up."Perhaps some of those "survivors" could show up & get to work! Or at least knock on the rectory door & see what's needed. When you've set something up, post a request for volunteers. My own folks aren't buried there, but I'd be glad to help. Edited January 28, 2009 by MaggieMay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 According to this article, there was an effort in the 1960's to clean up the cemetary. "Families of those buried here had an association once but the survivors are so far away they can no longer keep it up."Perhaps some of those "survivors" could show up & get to work! Or at least knock on the rectory door & see what's needed. When you've set something up, post a request for volunteers. My own folks aren't buried there, but I'd be glad to help. I always wanted to learn the whole history of the school as well as the church. I had an uncle that attended and graduated from the school back in the late 1940's and my big sis attended as a child in the late 1950's (pic at beginning of this topic). The mass was always in English/Latin and occasionally in Spanish as far as I know then or at least until the late 1960's then we started going to Annunciation down the street on Texas Ave. It was always believed that the cemetary was strickly for clergy and sisters that devoted their lives to this specific house of worship? I am almost certain not just anyone can be interred here. Another EE mystery! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaggieMay Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I always wanted to learn the whole history of the school as well as the church. I had an uncle that attended and graduated from the school back in the late 1940's and my big sis attended as a child in the late 1950's (pic at beginning of this topic). The mass was always in English/Latin and occasionally in Spanish as far as I know then or at least until the late 1960's then we started going to Annunciation down the street on Texas Ave. It was always believed that the cemetary was strickly for clergy and sisters that devoted their lives to this specific house of worship? I am almost certain not just anyone can be interred here. Another EE mystery! I think the cemetery predates the current church considerably. The article I linked above said the last burial was a Polish count--in 1927. So the priests & nuns who've served there are buried elsewhere. And none of the current parishioners can look forward to resting there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 St. Vincent's Cemetery Founded 1852 Burial place of Dick Dowling, hero of Sabine Pass Samuel Paschal, hero of San Jacinto And other Houston pioneers 1st LT Richard W Dowling Co F 1 Texas HV Arty CSA 1838 1867 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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