Author: rakeleafs

Dear Friends,  Could you consider spending about an hour and a half at St. Vincent Cemetery to help with hosting a group on Wednesday, March 8 between 2:30 and 4:00 pm?  We could use extra people to briefly talk about why they want to preserve St. Vincent Cemetery and their ancesters’ graves.

Professor Gabrielle Dean, PhD and Nancy Sheads, retiree from Maryland State Archives, and Jesse Bennett are teaching a class at Johns Hopkins University on cemeteries, such as Laurel and Mt. Auburn, and what it means for a cemetery to be cut off from its community of descendants.

Dr. Dean will bring a group of students to St. Vincent Cemetery for a talk on the history of the Cemetery and a tour on Wednesday, March 8 between 2:30 and 4:00 pm.

In addition to students from Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Dean, Jesse Bennett, and Nancy Sheads will be accompanied by students from Morgan State University and Coppins State University.

Professor Elgin Klug, PhD will accompany his students from Coppins State University.  Dr. Klug is very involved with the preservation project at Laurel Cemetery located across Belair Road from St. Vincent Cemetery.  Many of you will recall that Laurel Cemetery was also destroyed, and a shopping center was built on top of graves.

Please consider helping to host this event for St. Vincent Cemetery.  Contact me if you can help. Stephanie

DATE: Wednesday, January 25, 2023
TIME: 1:00 pm until 3:00 pm
PLACE: Clifton Mansion in Clifton Park –
2701 St. Lo Drive, Baltimore MD 21213

This will be a business meeting. We will also discuss plans for 2023. Weather permitting we will go to the Cemetery at the conclusion of the meeting.
All are invited to attend. Bring a relative or a friend.

Dear Friends,  #Giving Tuesday is November 29, 2022.  As we move into the year-end Season of Giving, please consider a tax-deductible donation to Friends of St. Vincent Cemetery, a 501c3 tax exempt organization.  The IRS EID number is 90-0666447. 

Donations checks should be made out to Friends of St. Vincent Cemetery and mailed to:

Mr. Edwin Crawford, Treasurer
c/o Friends of St. Vincent Cemetery
12110 Tullamore Ct., #305
Timonium, MD  21093

Donations are also accepted online at the St. Vincent Cemetery Baltimore website.  For your convenience here is the link:  https://stvincentcemeterybaltimore.org/donate/

Your donation will be used to construct a memorial area at St. Vincent Cemetery that will include and help to preserve the 144 gravestones located in four clusters in the Cemetery.

Thank you in advance for your kind consideration of this matter.

Stephanie Town

Donations made on this website will be used towards construction costs for a proposed memorial area at the Cemetery. The memorial area will enable preservation by incorporating all the existing gravestones.

On Thursday, October 21^st we presented a three-minute Pitch on behalf of Friends of St. Vincent Cemetery to the Baltimore Heritage Pitch Party requesting a Micro Grant to help pay for the next WordPress subscription cost for the website for St. Vincent Cemetery.  We were successful in winning third place which included a $250 Micro Grant.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Baltimore Heritage Pitch Party and voted for our project.  Your votes helped us win a $250 Micro Grant for the St. Vincent Cemetery website.