 |
| Click photo to enlarge |
 |
| Click photo to enlarge |
 |
| Click photo to enlarge |
Holy Cross Cemetery
Spokane, Spokane County, Washington
7200 N Wall St
Spokane WA 99208
509-467-5496
Lat: 47° 43' 27"N, Lon: 117° 24' 58"W
T26N R43E S30
Transcribed by Maggie Rail, © Mar 2000-2008, last edited Jun 30,
2008 [mrail@asisna.com] Total =
25,660.
Holy Cross Cemetery is located in Spokane on North Wall Street. It is
easily reached by going west to Wall from Division at most any point along
the way and continuing north to the cemetery, which is on the east side
of Wall St.
Holy Cross is a Roman Catholic Cemetery which had been in existence
since the early 1900's. It is perpetual care and very well maintained.
This cemetery and Saint Joseph Cemetery in the City of Spokane Valley
are both maintained by the Catholic
Diocese of Spokane. If you wish photos of a headstone, contact the
cemetery
office and they will be willing to take a digital photo for you.
When I started this project, I rather doubted I would finish it, but
thanks to the help of first Madeline Edgren and later Ila Wakley, it
has come to pass. Madeline helped at the start and then personal duties
prevented her from finishing. Like a miracle, Ila offered to help me.
Now the initial work is completed and I intend to try to keep it up
to date as much as possible.
This is a record of the burial and death records from
the office at Holy Cross Cemetery. This does not include the tombstone
readings, which saddens me, but when the cemetery is so large, I reasoned
a name and one date was better than nothing.
Occasionally I have added records I found in my other
work, which were not a part of the office records, but I felt worthy
of being added. One example was a list of a couple dozen names from
the records at St Anne Church in Medical Lake, which included burials
at Holy Cross. Most were simply additional information to and existing
name.
The dates are the burial dates before 1985. Starting
in January of 1985, they are the death dates. If you spot one typed
incorrectly, I apologize. A few birthdates have been added, when I
came upon them, but not many. There are many without a date. This
is because there is not one. There were periods of time when no one
kept a good record.
I do have one caution to all. There seemed to be an
unusual amount of people living over 100yr of age, so I started checking
on their birthdates. I discovered that many are errors. I found some
that only lived to be 75yr old, and it said they lived longer, so
beware, this may not be accurate.
From experience I have learned that sometimes when it
says Jan 01, then the year, for the death or burial date, this often
means the person was born or died sometime in that year. This also
can apply to the month dates. Apparently the cemetery program has
to put in a date when they do not know all of the date, it will come
up 01, when only the month or year is known. This is not to say some
did not die or get buried on the first day of a month. I doubt many
were on the first day of the year.
Madeline Edgren, Ila Wakley and I worked for over a
year to get the first group typed up. This brought the records up
to about March of 2000. I have since had three different updates from
the cemetery. At this time these records are complete up to Oct 31,
2007.
- Maggie Rail
FH = funeral home
HCC = Hennessey-Calloway Chapel
Henn-Call = Hennessey-Calloway Chapel
Henn-Smith = Hennessey-Smith FH
|