buried in an mass, unmarked grave at Schuykill County Almshouse now known as Rest Haven
husband of Veronica Petrosavage Verlosky
1910 census and his death certificate has his sur-name as Rubleuski, so i can only assume Rubleiski was the Lithuanian sur-name and it was Americanized to Verlosky and then changed again down the line to Earlosky
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"I checked the entire Rest Haven cemetery on 8/6/2015 and there was not a marker with this name" ~Jed Brensinger (#48779308)
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"Route 61 construction reveals mass grave in Schuylkill Haven
By Gabriella O'Grady
Published: August 13, 2015
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — Human remains from the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic were unearthed in the lot adjacent to the U.S. Army Reserve Center during state Department of Transportation construction Thursday on Route 61, North Manheim Township.
“It’s confirmed that there were human remains found. The lot was actually used as a burial ground for the plague (Spanish influenza) in 1918 where they dumped masses of bodies,” Corporal Michael Sadusky, of the state police at Schuylkill Haven, said Thursday. “This isn’t a criminal act. There was no misconduct at all.”
Approximately 10 bone fragments could been seen protruding from the dirt along side Route 61 South.
“One looked like a tibia, which is the long bone of the lower leg, definitely a partial mandible, which is the jaw bone, and we identified that because of the anatomic location of the tooth socket. Then there were fragments of the skull plate,” Schuylkill County Coroner Dr. David J. Moylan III said Thursday. Confirmed identification of the bones is pending further investigation.
Construction will not continue until the bones are removed.
Moylan sent photos of the bones to Dr. Dennis Dirkmatt, professor of Forensic Archeology at Mercyhurst University, Erie. The bones were not disturbed or dug out Thursday due to the sparse amount of sunlight left in the day close to 6 p.m.
“We plan to carry out further digging of the bones that have been identified. We’ll attempt to catalog them, and we will be segregating them as best we can. The bones are likely related to different individuals,” Moylan said.
The bones will be excavated and a DNA sample will be extracted today by a team of senior research associates from Mercyhurst University.
“They’ll be staying at the Simon Kramer institute here overnight. If they finish tomorrow, then we’re done,” he said.
The remains will be buried at Potter’s Field, on the property of Rest Haven Nursing Home, 401 University Dr., Schuylkill Haven.
As part of the property deed, any remains found must be given a proper burial, property owner Joan Bachman, Schuylkill Haven, said.
Bachman has owned the property since 1997. Her husband leveled the lot to provide a grassy play area for their grandson and the young kids in the neighborhood.
“We dug out about three feet of dirt to level the field, and we didn’t find any remains then,” Bachman said.
According to The Republican-Herald archives, influenza outbreaks were reported in Cressona and Schuylkill Haven on Oct. 3, 1918, requiring schools to close.
“Symptoms included very serious head colds, accompanied by high fevers and a general feeling of severe sickness. Sufferers also complained of dizzy spells and vomiting. Symptoms were sometimes gone within a few days, but some people then developed pneumonia or other complications and died,” according to the archives. “The Republican reported that the 1918 flu epidemic afflicted 17,000 Schuylkill County residents, including several thousand who died. An estimated 3,000 children became orphans.”
Moylan said his grandfather was a physician in Philadelphia during the epidemic. Though Moylan was about two years old when his grandfather died, he heard stories that caskets were impossible to find during that time because the death toll was so high.
“If you had a casket on your front porch, you had to have it chained up or people would steal it for their loved ones,” he said."
http://m.republicanherald.com/news/route-61-construction-reveals-mass-grave-in-schuylkill-haven-1.1926821
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Bones unearthed in Route 61 construction laid to rest
By Amy Marchiano
Published: December 22, 2015
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — The bones are now home.
The cremated remains of what is believed to be four people buried in what was the Poter’s Field Cemetery near the Army Reserve Center in North Manheim Township were laid to rest Monday in a solemn ceremony at the cemetery at Rosewood Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Schuylkill Haven. The cremains were buried with the cremated remains of a person, of 34 people who did not have a burial location. Each individual has a separate urn except for the cremains found along Route 61. They were in a granite urn.
Writing on the urn says “cremains of four souls whose bones were unearthed along Route 61 in North Manheim Township 2015.”
The remains were found in August during the Route 61 widening project through Schuylkill Haven. Ground-penetrating radar was used at the site in September in an attempt to find more information. No additional excavation was done at the site, which is now covered. Additional remains were left in place and covered.
“As part of our investigation it was determined in all probability these bones belonged to individuals that may have died in the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic,” Schuylkill County Coroner Dr. David J. Moylan III said.
The ceremony started about 12:15 p.m. and lasted about 25 minutes. Those in attendance were led in the Lord’s Prayer by the Rev. Edward B. Connolly, pastor emeritus of St. Joseph and St. Vincent De Paul parishes of Girardville. A hymn was sung and comments were made by Moylan, Connolly and Lisa Sophia, chief executive officer and chief operating officer of Investment 360°, which operates Rosewood Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.
Moylan said the land they were buried on is the Alms House Cemetery from the 1950s to present day. Sophia recognized the importance of the day for health care providers.
“As health care providers, our mission is to care for those who are in need to rehabilitation and health care services. But more importantly and the reason we are all here today, as owners of this holy ground, Investment 360 and Premier Healthcare feel a deep respect, admiration and charity of heart as members of the Schuylkill Community to donate this plot of land as we gather today to memorialize those who have passed away and bring our brothers and sisters to their final resting place,” Sophia said.
She then said a prayer.
Connolly spoke from the heart about the departed.
“Our brothers and sisters, some of those names we know, some of those whose names we do not know, have gone to their rest in the peace of Christ,” he said.
He said the grave promises resurrection “even as it claims our mortal bodies. Grant our deceased brothers and sisters that they may sleep here in peace until you awaken them to glory,” he said.
Connolly took a handful of dirt and sprinkled it into the grave. Near the end of the service, Connolly sprinkled Holy Water over the grave.
Dr. Herb Rubright, medical director of Rosewood, said “probably 147” people were buried at the cemetery prior to Monday’s burial.
The state Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration has said it will contribute a marker for the memorial, which cannot be located on PennDOT property but could be on county-owned land. The county can complete the memorial with funds from the FHWA and PennDOT
http://m.republicanherald.com/news/bones-unearthed-in-route-61-construction-laid-to-rest-1.1986056
husband of Veronica Petrosavage Verlosky
1910 census and his death certificate has his sur-name as Rubleuski, so i can only assume Rubleiski was the Lithuanian sur-name and it was Americanized to Verlosky and then changed again down the line to Earlosky
____________________________________________________________
"I checked the entire Rest Haven cemetery on 8/6/2015 and there was not a marker with this name" ~Jed Brensinger (#48779308)
____________________________________________________________
"Route 61 construction reveals mass grave in Schuylkill Haven
By Gabriella O'Grady
Published: August 13, 2015
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — Human remains from the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic were unearthed in the lot adjacent to the U.S. Army Reserve Center during state Department of Transportation construction Thursday on Route 61, North Manheim Township.
“It’s confirmed that there were human remains found. The lot was actually used as a burial ground for the plague (Spanish influenza) in 1918 where they dumped masses of bodies,” Corporal Michael Sadusky, of the state police at Schuylkill Haven, said Thursday. “This isn’t a criminal act. There was no misconduct at all.”
Approximately 10 bone fragments could been seen protruding from the dirt along side Route 61 South.
“One looked like a tibia, which is the long bone of the lower leg, definitely a partial mandible, which is the jaw bone, and we identified that because of the anatomic location of the tooth socket. Then there were fragments of the skull plate,” Schuylkill County Coroner Dr. David J. Moylan III said Thursday. Confirmed identification of the bones is pending further investigation.
Construction will not continue until the bones are removed.
Moylan sent photos of the bones to Dr. Dennis Dirkmatt, professor of Forensic Archeology at Mercyhurst University, Erie. The bones were not disturbed or dug out Thursday due to the sparse amount of sunlight left in the day close to 6 p.m.
“We plan to carry out further digging of the bones that have been identified. We’ll attempt to catalog them, and we will be segregating them as best we can. The bones are likely related to different individuals,” Moylan said.
The bones will be excavated and a DNA sample will be extracted today by a team of senior research associates from Mercyhurst University.
“They’ll be staying at the Simon Kramer institute here overnight. If they finish tomorrow, then we’re done,” he said.
The remains will be buried at Potter’s Field, on the property of Rest Haven Nursing Home, 401 University Dr., Schuylkill Haven.
As part of the property deed, any remains found must be given a proper burial, property owner Joan Bachman, Schuylkill Haven, said.
Bachman has owned the property since 1997. Her husband leveled the lot to provide a grassy play area for their grandson and the young kids in the neighborhood.
“We dug out about three feet of dirt to level the field, and we didn’t find any remains then,” Bachman said.
According to The Republican-Herald archives, influenza outbreaks were reported in Cressona and Schuylkill Haven on Oct. 3, 1918, requiring schools to close.
“Symptoms included very serious head colds, accompanied by high fevers and a general feeling of severe sickness. Sufferers also complained of dizzy spells and vomiting. Symptoms were sometimes gone within a few days, but some people then developed pneumonia or other complications and died,” according to the archives. “The Republican reported that the 1918 flu epidemic afflicted 17,000 Schuylkill County residents, including several thousand who died. An estimated 3,000 children became orphans.”
Moylan said his grandfather was a physician in Philadelphia during the epidemic. Though Moylan was about two years old when his grandfather died, he heard stories that caskets were impossible to find during that time because the death toll was so high.
“If you had a casket on your front porch, you had to have it chained up or people would steal it for their loved ones,” he said."
http://m.republicanherald.com/news/route-61-construction-reveals-mass-grave-in-schuylkill-haven-1.1926821
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Bones unearthed in Route 61 construction laid to rest
By Amy Marchiano
Published: December 22, 2015
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — The bones are now home.
The cremated remains of what is believed to be four people buried in what was the Poter’s Field Cemetery near the Army Reserve Center in North Manheim Township were laid to rest Monday in a solemn ceremony at the cemetery at Rosewood Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Schuylkill Haven. The cremains were buried with the cremated remains of a person, of 34 people who did not have a burial location. Each individual has a separate urn except for the cremains found along Route 61. They were in a granite urn.
Writing on the urn says “cremains of four souls whose bones were unearthed along Route 61 in North Manheim Township 2015.”
The remains were found in August during the Route 61 widening project through Schuylkill Haven. Ground-penetrating radar was used at the site in September in an attempt to find more information. No additional excavation was done at the site, which is now covered. Additional remains were left in place and covered.
“As part of our investigation it was determined in all probability these bones belonged to individuals that may have died in the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic,” Schuylkill County Coroner Dr. David J. Moylan III said.
The ceremony started about 12:15 p.m. and lasted about 25 minutes. Those in attendance were led in the Lord’s Prayer by the Rev. Edward B. Connolly, pastor emeritus of St. Joseph and St. Vincent De Paul parishes of Girardville. A hymn was sung and comments were made by Moylan, Connolly and Lisa Sophia, chief executive officer and chief operating officer of Investment 360°, which operates Rosewood Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.
Moylan said the land they were buried on is the Alms House Cemetery from the 1950s to present day. Sophia recognized the importance of the day for health care providers.
“As health care providers, our mission is to care for those who are in need to rehabilitation and health care services. But more importantly and the reason we are all here today, as owners of this holy ground, Investment 360 and Premier Healthcare feel a deep respect, admiration and charity of heart as members of the Schuylkill Community to donate this plot of land as we gather today to memorialize those who have passed away and bring our brothers and sisters to their final resting place,” Sophia said.
She then said a prayer.
Connolly spoke from the heart about the departed.
“Our brothers and sisters, some of those names we know, some of those whose names we do not know, have gone to their rest in the peace of Christ,” he said.
He said the grave promises resurrection “even as it claims our mortal bodies. Grant our deceased brothers and sisters that they may sleep here in peace until you awaken them to glory,” he said.
Connolly took a handful of dirt and sprinkled it into the grave. Near the end of the service, Connolly sprinkled Holy Water over the grave.
Dr. Herb Rubright, medical director of Rosewood, said “probably 147” people were buried at the cemetery prior to Monday’s burial.
The state Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration has said it will contribute a marker for the memorial, which cannot be located on PennDOT property but could be on county-owned land. The county can complete the memorial with funds from the FHWA and PennDOT
http://m.republicanherald.com/news/bones-unearthed-in-route-61-construction-laid-to-rest-1.1986056
buried in an mass, unmarked grave at Schuykill County Almshouse now known as Rest Haven
husband of Veronica Petrosavage Verlosky
1910 census and his death certificate has his sur-name as Rubleuski, so i can only assume Rubleiski was the Lithuanian sur-name and it was Americanized to Verlosky and then changed again down the line to Earlosky
____________________________________________________________
"I checked the entire Rest Haven cemetery on 8/6/2015 and there was not a marker with this name" ~Jed Brensinger (#48779308)
____________________________________________________________
"Route 61 construction reveals mass grave in Schuylkill Haven
By Gabriella O'Grady
Published: August 13, 2015
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — Human remains from the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic were unearthed in the lot adjacent to the U.S. Army Reserve Center during state Department of Transportation construction Thursday on Route 61, North Manheim Township.
“It’s confirmed that there were human remains found. The lot was actually used as a burial ground for the plague (Spanish influenza) in 1918 where they dumped masses of bodies,” Corporal Michael Sadusky, of the state police at Schuylkill Haven, said Thursday. “This isn’t a criminal act. There was no misconduct at all.”
Approximately 10 bone fragments could been seen protruding from the dirt along side Route 61 South.
“One looked like a tibia, which is the long bone of the lower leg, definitely a partial mandible, which is the jaw bone, and we identified that because of the anatomic location of the tooth socket. Then there were fragments of the skull plate,” Schuylkill County Coroner Dr. David J. Moylan III said Thursday. Confirmed identification of the bones is pending further investigation.
Construction will not continue until the bones are removed.
Moylan sent photos of the bones to Dr. Dennis Dirkmatt, professor of Forensic Archeology at Mercyhurst University, Erie. The bones were not disturbed or dug out Thursday due to the sparse amount of sunlight left in the day close to 6 p.m.
“We plan to carry out further digging of the bones that have been identified. We’ll attempt to catalog them, and we will be segregating them as best we can. The bones are likely related to different individuals,” Moylan said.
The bones will be excavated and a DNA sample will be extracted today by a team of senior research associates from Mercyhurst University.
“They’ll be staying at the Simon Kramer institute here overnight. If they finish tomorrow, then we’re done,” he said.
The remains will be buried at Potter’s Field, on the property of Rest Haven Nursing Home, 401 University Dr., Schuylkill Haven.
As part of the property deed, any remains found must be given a proper burial, property owner Joan Bachman, Schuylkill Haven, said.
Bachman has owned the property since 1997. Her husband leveled the lot to provide a grassy play area for their grandson and the young kids in the neighborhood.
“We dug out about three feet of dirt to level the field, and we didn’t find any remains then,” Bachman said.
According to The Republican-Herald archives, influenza outbreaks were reported in Cressona and Schuylkill Haven on Oct. 3, 1918, requiring schools to close.
“Symptoms included very serious head colds, accompanied by high fevers and a general feeling of severe sickness. Sufferers also complained of dizzy spells and vomiting. Symptoms were sometimes gone within a few days, but some people then developed pneumonia or other complications and died,” according to the archives. “The Republican reported that the 1918 flu epidemic afflicted 17,000 Schuylkill County residents, including several thousand who died. An estimated 3,000 children became orphans.”
Moylan said his grandfather was a physician in Philadelphia during the epidemic. Though Moylan was about two years old when his grandfather died, he heard stories that caskets were impossible to find during that time because the death toll was so high.
“If you had a casket on your front porch, you had to have it chained up or people would steal it for their loved ones,” he said."
http://m.republicanherald.com/news/route-61-construction-reveals-mass-grave-in-schuylkill-haven-1.1926821
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Bones unearthed in Route 61 construction laid to rest
By Amy Marchiano
Published: December 22, 2015
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — The bones are now home.
The cremated remains of what is believed to be four people buried in what was the Poter’s Field Cemetery near the Army Reserve Center in North Manheim Township were laid to rest Monday in a solemn ceremony at the cemetery at Rosewood Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Schuylkill Haven. The cremains were buried with the cremated remains of a person, of 34 people who did not have a burial location. Each individual has a separate urn except for the cremains found along Route 61. They were in a granite urn.
Writing on the urn says “cremains of four souls whose bones were unearthed along Route 61 in North Manheim Township 2015.”
The remains were found in August during the Route 61 widening project through Schuylkill Haven. Ground-penetrating radar was used at the site in September in an attempt to find more information. No additional excavation was done at the site, which is now covered. Additional remains were left in place and covered.
“As part of our investigation it was determined in all probability these bones belonged to individuals that may have died in the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic,” Schuylkill County Coroner Dr. David J. Moylan III said.
The ceremony started about 12:15 p.m. and lasted about 25 minutes. Those in attendance were led in the Lord’s Prayer by the Rev. Edward B. Connolly, pastor emeritus of St. Joseph and St. Vincent De Paul parishes of Girardville. A hymn was sung and comments were made by Moylan, Connolly and Lisa Sophia, chief executive officer and chief operating officer of Investment 360°, which operates Rosewood Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.
Moylan said the land they were buried on is the Alms House Cemetery from the 1950s to present day. Sophia recognized the importance of the day for health care providers.
“As health care providers, our mission is to care for those who are in need to rehabilitation and health care services. But more importantly and the reason we are all here today, as owners of this holy ground, Investment 360 and Premier Healthcare feel a deep respect, admiration and charity of heart as members of the Schuylkill Community to donate this plot of land as we gather today to memorialize those who have passed away and bring our brothers and sisters to their final resting place,” Sophia said.
She then said a prayer.
Connolly spoke from the heart about the departed.
“Our brothers and sisters, some of those names we know, some of those whose names we do not know, have gone to their rest in the peace of Christ,” he said.
He said the grave promises resurrection “even as it claims our mortal bodies. Grant our deceased brothers and sisters that they may sleep here in peace until you awaken them to glory,” he said.
Connolly took a handful of dirt and sprinkled it into the grave. Near the end of the service, Connolly sprinkled Holy Water over the grave.
Dr. Herb Rubright, medical director of Rosewood, said “probably 147” people were buried at the cemetery prior to Monday’s burial.
The state Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration has said it will contribute a marker for the memorial, which cannot be located on PennDOT property but could be on county-owned land. The county can complete the memorial with funds from the FHWA and PennDOT
http://m.republicanherald.com/news/bones-unearthed-in-route-61-construction-laid-to-rest-1.1986056
husband of Veronica Petrosavage Verlosky
1910 census and his death certificate has his sur-name as Rubleuski, so i can only assume Rubleiski was the Lithuanian sur-name and it was Americanized to Verlosky and then changed again down the line to Earlosky
____________________________________________________________
"I checked the entire Rest Haven cemetery on 8/6/2015 and there was not a marker with this name" ~Jed Brensinger (#48779308)
____________________________________________________________
"Route 61 construction reveals mass grave in Schuylkill Haven
By Gabriella O'Grady
Published: August 13, 2015
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — Human remains from the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic were unearthed in the lot adjacent to the U.S. Army Reserve Center during state Department of Transportation construction Thursday on Route 61, North Manheim Township.
“It’s confirmed that there were human remains found. The lot was actually used as a burial ground for the plague (Spanish influenza) in 1918 where they dumped masses of bodies,” Corporal Michael Sadusky, of the state police at Schuylkill Haven, said Thursday. “This isn’t a criminal act. There was no misconduct at all.”
Approximately 10 bone fragments could been seen protruding from the dirt along side Route 61 South.
“One looked like a tibia, which is the long bone of the lower leg, definitely a partial mandible, which is the jaw bone, and we identified that because of the anatomic location of the tooth socket. Then there were fragments of the skull plate,” Schuylkill County Coroner Dr. David J. Moylan III said Thursday. Confirmed identification of the bones is pending further investigation.
Construction will not continue until the bones are removed.
Moylan sent photos of the bones to Dr. Dennis Dirkmatt, professor of Forensic Archeology at Mercyhurst University, Erie. The bones were not disturbed or dug out Thursday due to the sparse amount of sunlight left in the day close to 6 p.m.
“We plan to carry out further digging of the bones that have been identified. We’ll attempt to catalog them, and we will be segregating them as best we can. The bones are likely related to different individuals,” Moylan said.
The bones will be excavated and a DNA sample will be extracted today by a team of senior research associates from Mercyhurst University.
“They’ll be staying at the Simon Kramer institute here overnight. If they finish tomorrow, then we’re done,” he said.
The remains will be buried at Potter’s Field, on the property of Rest Haven Nursing Home, 401 University Dr., Schuylkill Haven.
As part of the property deed, any remains found must be given a proper burial, property owner Joan Bachman, Schuylkill Haven, said.
Bachman has owned the property since 1997. Her husband leveled the lot to provide a grassy play area for their grandson and the young kids in the neighborhood.
“We dug out about three feet of dirt to level the field, and we didn’t find any remains then,” Bachman said.
According to The Republican-Herald archives, influenza outbreaks were reported in Cressona and Schuylkill Haven on Oct. 3, 1918, requiring schools to close.
“Symptoms included very serious head colds, accompanied by high fevers and a general feeling of severe sickness. Sufferers also complained of dizzy spells and vomiting. Symptoms were sometimes gone within a few days, but some people then developed pneumonia or other complications and died,” according to the archives. “The Republican reported that the 1918 flu epidemic afflicted 17,000 Schuylkill County residents, including several thousand who died. An estimated 3,000 children became orphans.”
Moylan said his grandfather was a physician in Philadelphia during the epidemic. Though Moylan was about two years old when his grandfather died, he heard stories that caskets were impossible to find during that time because the death toll was so high.
“If you had a casket on your front porch, you had to have it chained up or people would steal it for their loved ones,” he said."
http://m.republicanherald.com/news/route-61-construction-reveals-mass-grave-in-schuylkill-haven-1.1926821
____________________________________________________________
Bones unearthed in Route 61 construction laid to rest
By Amy Marchiano
Published: December 22, 2015
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — The bones are now home.
The cremated remains of what is believed to be four people buried in what was the Poter’s Field Cemetery near the Army Reserve Center in North Manheim Township were laid to rest Monday in a solemn ceremony at the cemetery at Rosewood Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Schuylkill Haven. The cremains were buried with the cremated remains of a person, of 34 people who did not have a burial location. Each individual has a separate urn except for the cremains found along Route 61. They were in a granite urn.
Writing on the urn says “cremains of four souls whose bones were unearthed along Route 61 in North Manheim Township 2015.”
The remains were found in August during the Route 61 widening project through Schuylkill Haven. Ground-penetrating radar was used at the site in September in an attempt to find more information. No additional excavation was done at the site, which is now covered. Additional remains were left in place and covered.
“As part of our investigation it was determined in all probability these bones belonged to individuals that may have died in the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic,” Schuylkill County Coroner Dr. David J. Moylan III said.
The ceremony started about 12:15 p.m. and lasted about 25 minutes. Those in attendance were led in the Lord’s Prayer by the Rev. Edward B. Connolly, pastor emeritus of St. Joseph and St. Vincent De Paul parishes of Girardville. A hymn was sung and comments were made by Moylan, Connolly and Lisa Sophia, chief executive officer and chief operating officer of Investment 360°, which operates Rosewood Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.
Moylan said the land they were buried on is the Alms House Cemetery from the 1950s to present day. Sophia recognized the importance of the day for health care providers.
“As health care providers, our mission is to care for those who are in need to rehabilitation and health care services. But more importantly and the reason we are all here today, as owners of this holy ground, Investment 360 and Premier Healthcare feel a deep respect, admiration and charity of heart as members of the Schuylkill Community to donate this plot of land as we gather today to memorialize those who have passed away and bring our brothers and sisters to their final resting place,” Sophia said.
She then said a prayer.
Connolly spoke from the heart about the departed.
“Our brothers and sisters, some of those names we know, some of those whose names we do not know, have gone to their rest in the peace of Christ,” he said.
He said the grave promises resurrection “even as it claims our mortal bodies. Grant our deceased brothers and sisters that they may sleep here in peace until you awaken them to glory,” he said.
Connolly took a handful of dirt and sprinkled it into the grave. Near the end of the service, Connolly sprinkled Holy Water over the grave.
Dr. Herb Rubright, medical director of Rosewood, said “probably 147” people were buried at the cemetery prior to Monday’s burial.
The state Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration has said it will contribute a marker for the memorial, which cannot be located on PennDOT property but could be on county-owned land. The county can complete the memorial with funds from the FHWA and PennDOT
http://m.republicanherald.com/news/bones-unearthed-in-route-61-construction-laid-to-rest-1.1986056
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