Saint Patricks Cemetery in Mondovi, Wisconsin

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Coordinates: 44.57300, -91.78240
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Clippings from LaCrosse Diocese publications over the years and the Buffalo County Historical Society give us the following bits of information regarding St. Patrick's Church and Cemetery: Old family stories say that there was a mission church here for the many Irish settlers as early as 1848 but the only known records show a mission founded in 1865 and a church built in 1868. St. Patrick's Church was formally established in 1871 as a mission church by Father John Meurs who served as pastor of St. Henry's Church in Eau Galle. Records show he built the church that year for $783 and it measured 38 by 65 feet and was 14 feet high. The earliest tombstone in the cemetery is dated 1874. Services were held about once a month. Father Joseph M Baur, a pastor at St. Mary's Church in Durand took over serving the mission in 1881. He began recording St. Patrick's records separately at that time. In 1896 Sacred Heart Church was built in Mondovi by Father Edward P. O'Toole and took over serving the mission church located only 5 miles west of town in the township of Canton. Some documents refer to the cemetery as the Canton Cemetery. St. Patrick's ceased being a mission after 1900. The church building was moved into Mondovi about 1916 and no longer exists. A tale is repeated that when the church was moved into town certain things were removed. It seems the statue of St. Patrick was missing an arm, so the Irish gave him a proper burial with the rest of the settlers.