St. Mary's Cemetery is a historic

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cemetery in

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, United States, located off Rascal Town Road, southeast of

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. The

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contains about 20 19th-century monuments and was still being used for burials as of the late 20th century. The cemetery and its white iron gate are the only remaining physical evidence of the 19th-century

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Catholic settlement of St. Mary's. A number of the 19th-century monuments in the cemetery have

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inscriptions. A small log church was built at the site in 1872 but was no longer standing as of 1984, when the cemetery was listed on the

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