According to Denver archives, Mary “Deppersmith”, who has the exact same birth and death dates as Mary Depperschmidt (and “Smith” is the English version of “Schmidt”), was buried at the old Calvary Cemetery in Denver. According to a cousin, she was killed in a buggy accident. Ironically her youngest daughter was killed in a car accident in 1927.
It was the Catholic section of the larger Prospect Hill, later the Denver City Cemetery. To make a long story short, Denver wanted the land for parks and asked families to move their loved ones to another cemetery. The Archdiocese succeeded in buying time, but ended up moving a number of deceased to Mount Olivet when it opened in about 1892. They moved the rest by 1950. Although there is at least one story that indicates they did not move 100% of the occupants of the old cemetery. Workers found one or more bodies when they were working on the Denver Botanic Gardens parking garage.
The bodies from Calvary were re-interred in section 24 of Mount Olivet. This section, described by an employee of the Archdiocese as “full”, has very few headstones. Most of the people lie in unmarked graves.
As for Mary, the absence of a card in Mount Olivet's card file does NOT mean she is not buried there. They admitted that their records are incomplete. And as I noted, most of the graves at Mount Olivet are unmarked. So she is either at Mount Olivet, or under the Denver Botanic Gardens, or horrifically in both places.
Provided by Pat Hyman on 9/5/2016
It was the Catholic section of the larger Prospect Hill, later the Denver City Cemetery. To make a long story short, Denver wanted the land for parks and asked families to move their loved ones to another cemetery. The Archdiocese succeeded in buying time, but ended up moving a number of deceased to Mount Olivet when it opened in about 1892. They moved the rest by 1950. Although there is at least one story that indicates they did not move 100% of the occupants of the old cemetery. Workers found one or more bodies when they were working on the Denver Botanic Gardens parking garage.
The bodies from Calvary were re-interred in section 24 of Mount Olivet. This section, described by an employee of the Archdiocese as “full”, has very few headstones. Most of the people lie in unmarked graves.
As for Mary, the absence of a card in Mount Olivet's card file does NOT mean she is not buried there. They admitted that their records are incomplete. And as I noted, most of the graves at Mount Olivet are unmarked. So she is either at Mount Olivet, or under the Denver Botanic Gardens, or horrifically in both places.
Provided by Pat Hyman on 9/5/2016
According to Denver archives, Mary “Deppersmith”, who has the exact same birth and death dates as Mary Depperschmidt (and “Smith” is the English version of “Schmidt”), was buried at the old Calvary Cemetery in Denver. According to a cousin, she was killed in a buggy accident. Ironically her youngest daughter was killed in a car accident in 1927.
It was the Catholic section of the larger Prospect Hill, later the Denver City Cemetery. To make a long story short, Denver wanted the land for parks and asked families to move their loved ones to another cemetery. The Archdiocese succeeded in buying time, but ended up moving a number of deceased to Mount Olivet when it opened in about 1892. They moved the rest by 1950. Although there is at least one story that indicates they did not move 100% of the occupants of the old cemetery. Workers found one or more bodies when they were working on the Denver Botanic Gardens parking garage.
The bodies from Calvary were re-interred in section 24 of Mount Olivet. This section, described by an employee of the Archdiocese as “full”, has very few headstones. Most of the people lie in unmarked graves.
As for Mary, the absence of a card in Mount Olivet's card file does NOT mean she is not buried there. They admitted that their records are incomplete. And as I noted, most of the graves at Mount Olivet are unmarked. So she is either at Mount Olivet, or under the Denver Botanic Gardens, or horrifically in both places.
Provided by Pat Hyman on 9/5/2016
It was the Catholic section of the larger Prospect Hill, later the Denver City Cemetery. To make a long story short, Denver wanted the land for parks and asked families to move their loved ones to another cemetery. The Archdiocese succeeded in buying time, but ended up moving a number of deceased to Mount Olivet when it opened in about 1892. They moved the rest by 1950. Although there is at least one story that indicates they did not move 100% of the occupants of the old cemetery. Workers found one or more bodies when they were working on the Denver Botanic Gardens parking garage.
The bodies from Calvary were re-interred in section 24 of Mount Olivet. This section, described by an employee of the Archdiocese as “full”, has very few headstones. Most of the people lie in unmarked graves.
As for Mary, the absence of a card in Mount Olivet's card file does NOT mean she is not buried there. They admitted that their records are incomplete. And as I noted, most of the graves at Mount Olivet are unmarked. So she is either at Mount Olivet, or under the Denver Botanic Gardens, or horrifically in both places.
Provided by Pat Hyman on 9/5/2016
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