![]() The first chapel in the cemetery, Chapel Sv. In the period since 1872 over a quarter of a million people have been interred in the cemetery, with some 95 percent of them being of Polish descent. It is located on a major thoroughfare that ran through the heart of the early Polish community. ![]() Over the years the original “parish cemetery” increased from an initial size of twelve acres in 1872 to its present size of two hundred fifty acres. The document was signed by John Barcznek, Peter Koilbassa, and Rev. Other directors were: Stanislaus Lasczynski, Joseph Roubek, Paul Szeda, an John Tryams. The cemetery association incorporation document, dated May 5, 1876, and recorded Novemshows the directors for the first year were: Rt. ![]() Early burial records (earliest available are 1886) have been combined with those of St. This first cemetery was organized as the Bohemian Polish Catholic Cemetery Society of Chicago (Cesko-Polsky katolicy hrbitov). Pastors at Bohemian and Polish parishes in Chicago, unable to support a cemetery for their own individual parishes, joined together on Apto plan a shared cemetery. Boniface Cemetery (1863, German) and Oakwoods Cemetery (1864). Adalbert cemetery, Rosehill Cemetery (1859), St. Adalbert, at 6800 North Milwaukee Avenue in the town of Niles (Cook County), was one of the first cemeteries in the Chicago area to serve the ethnic community. This original Czech settlement was located just south of the city cemetery, later a city park, named after the deceased president, Abraham Lincoln. The wave of arriving immigrants, after living their lives in parish churches, found a need for land to serve as a cemetery. They in turn deeded the land to the Catholic Bishop of Chicago. Adolph Bakenowski acquired, on August 16, 1872, for $5190, a deed to twelve acres of land from John and Elizabeth Schumacher. Vojtecha) Cemetery, named after a tenth century Bishop of Prague and Patron Saint of Poland, dates back to when Rev. Adalbert Bohemian – Polish Catholic Cemetery in Chicago Published in the Koreny, Journal of the Czech and Slovak Genealogy Society of Illinois – Fall 1998 – Article written by Paul Nemecek
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