This land for this Cemetery was acquired 7/1/1903 with 7.924 acres

Saint Mary Cemetery and Saint Ignatius de Loyal Cemetery are adjacent Roman Catholic Cemeteries in Scott Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. They share a common access road and chapel. ATTENTION: PLOT When posting a memorial to the adjacent Cemeteries please add the cemetery in which the burial is located. PLOT: Saint Mary Cemetery PLOT: Saint Ignatius de Loyal Cemetery The Church of the Immaculate Conception (also known as St. Mary's Church) founded on 8 December 1893, was the first Polish Parish in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. The first pastor assigned to the Parish was Reverend Francis Makowski, who is buried at Saint Mary Cemetery. By the turn of the 21st century the church was overflowing due to large number of Polish immigrates moving in the community to work in the mines and factories. As a result Saint Ignatius de Loyola Parish, a second Polish Parish was established October 26, 1902 in nearby Glendale, Scott Township, Allegheny County. Reverend Andrew Dziatkowiec was assigned as Pastor to form the new parish. It appears that on 1 September 1903 both parish together purchased a triangle shaped parcel 7.294 acres in Scott Township, Allegheny. The parcel was divided in half with Saint Mary Cemetery, 4 acres, and Saint Ignatius de Loyal Cemetery, 3.924 acres. The parcel was officially divided at a later date. The two separate cemeteries share a common entrance road. When you turn off from Swallow Hill Road you enter Saint Mary Cemetery, and continues until you are at memorial for the priests on the right. That is were Saint Ignatius de Loyal Cemetery begins. You can distinguish between the the two cemeteries since the grave markers in each cemetery face different directions. The grave markers in Saint Mary Cemetery face southeast, or parallel to the entrance road. In the Saint Ignatius de Loyal cemetery the grave markers face south west towards Swallow Hill Road. The first burial at Saint Mary Cemetery was November 1903 and currently has approximately 1,100 graves. The first burial at Saint Ignatius was 2 January 1904 and currently has 2,000 graves. There are many unreadable and unmarked graves. The Cemetery has many interments of persons born in Poland. U. S. Veterans and military casualties from the World War I, World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War, Polish Veterans that served in the Polish military in World War I and World War II are also buried at the cemetery. This cemeteries are Managed by Catholic Parish Cemeteries Association 1000 Logue St Pittsburgh PA 15220 Telephone 412-256-9370 eMail: [email protected]