By Mary Hill
[email protected] | Posted: Friday, November 8, 2013 12:00 am
HYDETOWN — Some people driving along state Route 8, to or from Titusville, on Monday, probably saw workers demolishing the house at St. Catharine's Cemetery.
According to the Rev. Walter Packard, of the Catholic Community of Titusville, the cemetery board decided to demolish the house "after much discussion."
Packard said the house, which was built prior to 1900, was one of the original structures that came with the property when it became St. Catharine's Cemetery, in 1900.
He said the cemetery property was purchased by Joseph Seep, who was prominent in the oil industry and Standard Oil.
Seep gave the cemetery property to the Catholic Community of Titusville.
Seep is buried in St. Catharine's Cemetery.
"[He] named it in memory of his wife, Catharine, and the house came with the property," Packard said. "Our cemetery superintendent no longer lives there."
The house was a rental property and was inhabited up until two months ago.
"It was a rental property and with the condition of the house, it was less expensive to have it demolished" rather than renovate it, according to Packard.
He said notification of the demolition was given to the parish members.
On Monday, The Herald received some phone calls notifying the newsroom that the house was being torn down. One caller said a rumor was circulating that graves had been found under the house.
"There were no bodies under the house," Packard said, dispelling the rumor.
"[The property] was not a cemetery when the house was built."
By Mary Hill
[email protected] | Posted: Friday, November 8, 2013 12:00 am
HYDETOWN — Some people driving along state Route 8, to or from Titusville, on Monday, probably saw workers demolishing the house at St. Catharine's Cemetery.
According to the Rev. Walter Packard, of the Catholic Community of Titusville, the cemetery board decided to demolish the house "after much discussion."
Packard said the house, which was built prior to 1900, was one of the original structures that came with the property when it became St. Catharine's Cemetery, in 1900.
He said the cemetery property was purchased by Joseph Seep, who was prominent in the oil industry and Standard Oil.
Seep gave the cemetery property to the Catholic Community of Titusville.
Seep is buried in St. Catharine's Cemetery.
"[He] named it in memory of his wife, Catharine, and the house came with the property," Packard said. "Our cemetery superintendent no longer lives there."
The house was a rental property and was inhabited up until two months ago.
"It was a rental property and with the condition of the house, it was less expensive to have it demolished" rather than renovate it, according to Packard.
He said notification of the demolition was given to the parish members.
On Monday, The Herald received some phone calls notifying the newsroom that the house was being torn down. One caller said a rumor was circulating that graves had been found under the house.
"There were no bodies under the house," Packard said, dispelling the rumor.
"[The property] was not a cemetery when the house was built."
Family Members
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Lillian Mary Seep Quinby
1866–1935
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Eugene Edwin Seep
1868–1935
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Arthur Francis Seep
1870–1958
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Albert Henry Seep
1871–1936
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Mary Caroline "May" Seep Fennessy
1873–1919
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William Joseph Seep
1875–1910
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George Raymond Seep
1877–1919
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Catharine E Seep
1879–1882
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Alice Gertrude Seep Harvey
1881–1966
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Herbert Bernard Seep
1883–1956
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Alma Elizabeth Seep Fleming
1884–1963
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