Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery in Connellsville, Pennsylvania

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Get directions Baldwin Avenue
Connellsville, Pennsylvania 15425 United States

Coordinates: 40.01400, -79.58576
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery, located in the Baldwin Avenue Hollow, Connellsville, PA, was first part of Old Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery, located on Wills Road. Burials, mostly Italian, began on this lower hill in 1891. In 1904, the newly formed Our Lady of Mount Carmel R.C. Church purchased the hill to use as its parish cemetery. Space at that time was already limited, and by the end of the year, the cemetery was filled. When this happened, a few lots were used in the nearby Old Saint Emory Catholic Cemetery for burials until a new cemetery could be procured. By the end of 1904, burials from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish began in the Italian section of New Saint Joseph Cemetery on Breakneck Road. In 1936, this new Italian Section would be annexed by the newly founded Saint Rita Cemetery, which adjoins New Saint Joseph Cemetery.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cemetery became abandoned in the mid-1900s. Despite restoration efforts, the cemtery was subject to dense vegetation and vandalism. In 2015, as part of an Eagle Scout's Project, this cemetery was restored, mapped and catalogued. Saint Rita Parish, Connellsville, has since assumed responsibility of maintaing these cemetery grounds.

There are approx. several hundred graves in this cemetery with no headstone.