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Air photographs show some stone markers remained in the cemetery until the 1920s. The cemetery was paved over in the 1950s to serve as a parking lot. The markers were buried, although a few may have been moved to the Holy Cross
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Analysis of the burial records at St. Peter's show the majority of burials (907 burials) were Irish immigrants, including many soldiers (257 burials) in the
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