I stumbled across this isolated odd plot in the west end of the McCleary Cemetery today. The disturbed turf looked to be about the size needed to bury a pet.
Showing posts with label McCleary Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label McCleary Cemetery. Show all posts
Mystery grave
I stumbled across this isolated odd plot in the west end of the McCleary Cemetery today. The disturbed turf looked to be about the size needed to bury a pet.
Antique Farm Engine and Tractor Association Swap Meet
This large sign is next to the Cemetery.
Weird.
McCleary Cemetery and McCleary Community Center
There is something poetic and oddly comforting about these two community facilities being next to each other.
It's Miller Time!
Someone left a full bottle of Miller Beer as a memorial token on the headstone for Russ McMillan (1920-1998). The number of people around McCleary who remember the colorful Mr. McMillan has been rapidly declining.
McCleary Cemetery
This cemetery was started around 1911. Shortly after it began, the local Knights of Pythias took charge of it. In May, 1945 the lodge handed over the property to the McCleary municipal government.
A 1994 survey and indexing project established that over 20 unmarked and unrecorded graves exist, thanks in part to the soundings performed earlier by Herbert "Mac" McCready.
Cemetery cemerry-go-round
I expect Rod Serling, or worse, to step out of the woods any moment.
Greek section
George Itsos (1886-1940), Christ Pappas (1882-1956), Savvas Karaynnis (1873-1923), George Iliades (d. 1919), Peter Cholos (1873-1917), Demetrios Stamatoy "Yakima" Eanis (1881-1963), Anton Stergon (1882-1915) and three unmarked.
Claire Farrar 1897-1977
Christ Pappas 1882-1956
Henry McCleary, who ran this company town, "wished not to tolerate unions" and hired many workers from Italy and Greece and other parts of the Mediterranean in the early part of the 20th century as they were not likely to organize as laborers at that point in history.
Many of the Italians, who mostly arrived from the northern part of Italy, remained in McCleary. Angelo Pellegrini, perhaps McCleary's most famous historical resident, landed in McCleary as a boy in 1913. The neighborhood blocks around First and Mommsen (where the Pellegrinis lived) was known as "Little Italy."
Many of the Greeks who worked here did not settle in McCleary, although a few remained such as grocery store owner Nick Rillakis. The McCleary Cemetery has a small Greek section and a few of the headstones are carved in the Greek alphabet.
May 25, 2012
McCleary Community Center
Next door is the McCleary Cemetery, once operated by the Knights of Pythias but handed over to the city when McCleary incorporated in Jan. 1943.
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