Ozaukee County,
Wisconsin

St Cecilia Cemetery

Town of Mequon, Wisconsin

St Cecilia Cemetery was located in Township 09, Range 22East, Section 08 - NE1/4 bounded by the following current roads: Northwood, Bonness, Lakewood and private homes.

During the mid-1800’s, a group of people left Trier, Germany because of crop failure and bad times. They arrived in America and settled in the lower part of Ozaukee County and named the place 'Mekaian Settlements' which is now the Town of Mequon.

In 1919, reversing the long standing community sentiment against formal religion, a small wood-framed mission was erected at the corner of, what is now, Wisconsin & Orchard streets. St Cecilia Catholic Church became Thiensville’s first church. Founded 10 October 1919, St Cecilia's held its first mass on November 23, 1919. The original church is no longer standing.

Cemetery timeline:
Land was purchased 3 March 1953; January 1954 - land surveyed; November 1954 - temporary plotting of cemetery lots; October 1978 all persons exhumed; 1985 - land appraised in preparation for sale; 1986 - land sold to GIORGII subject to land division.

First burial was Phillip HALL in 1955. He was killed in 1952, buried on his grandfather’s farm with the stipulation that when St. Cecilia cemetery became a reality he was to be re-interred there.

Land proved to be unsuited for burials due to the geographic location and soil conditions. The cemetery was actually quite a distance from the church. In October 1978, all persons buried there were exhumed and removed to other cemeteries in the area.

Persons known to have been buried and removed	Cemetery Removed to
HALL, Phillip	Opitz cemetery on Mequon Road, Mequon
RAUSCH, Florence	Resurrection cemetery on Donges Bay and Swan Roads, Mequon
PINTOR, Douglas	Opitz cemetery on Mequon Road, Mequon
GUZINSKI, Julia	Resurrection cemetery on Donges Bay and Swan Roads, Mequon
EIDENBERGER, infant boy	to St. James cemetery, NESHKORO, WI
DOWLING, infant boy	to Resurrection cemetery on Donges Bay and Swan Roads, Mequon
RAUSCH, infant girl	Resurrection cemetery on Donges Bay and Swan Roads, Mequon
GUZINSKI, John	Resurrection cemetery on Donges Bay and Swan Roads, Mequon
NABAK, Frances	Resurrection cemetery on Donges Bay and Swan Roads, Mequon
CENSKY, infant	Resurrection cemetery on Donges Bay and Swan Roads, Mequon

This transcription was provided to Carol Boettcher via a phone interview with church secretary on Mon 27 Aug 2007.

Marker is in Thiensville, Wisconsin, in Ozaukee County, at the intersection of Buntrock Avenue and North Orchard Street, on the right when traveling west on Buntrock Avenue. Thiensville is a village in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. Located on the west bank of a bend in the Milwaukee River, the community is bordered on all sides by the City of Mequon and is a suburb in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The population was 3,235 at the 2010 census.

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