{"id":2174,"date":"2008-11-26T10:32:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T14:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/11\/26\/exploring-st-stanislaus-cemetery\/"},"modified":"2008-11-26T10:33:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T14:33:17","slug":"exploring-st-stanislaus-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/11\/exploring-st-stanislaus-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring St. Stanislaus Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampoleagle.com\/clients\/ampoleagle\/11-20-2008-12-06-18-PM-2688043.jpg?w=640\" \/>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Keith Kaszubik \u2013 AM-POL Eagle)<\/em> The final resting place for many of Buffalo Polonia\u2019s forefathers is at St. Stanislaus Cemetery on Pine Ridge Road in Cheektowaga which is associated with St. Stanislaus Parish in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Early interments for Buffalo\u2019s Polonia (founded in 1853) took place at the nearby United German & French Cemetery. A cemetery association had been established in 1859 by six parishes, among them St. Michael\u2019s and St. Mary\u2019s in Buffalo. These two parishes is where Fr. John Pitass (1844-1913), who arrived in 1873 to become the founding Father of Buffalo\u2019s Polonia, performed baptisms, marriages and funerals for our pioneers until St. Stanislaus Church was officially opened for business in 1874.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 50th anniversary book for St. Stanislaus Parish, \u201cIn 1888 Rev. John Pitass was notified by the administration of the German Cemetery, in which Poles from their arrival were buried, that henceforth Poles can no longer be buried there.\u201d However, this doesn\u2019t appear to be accurate since microfilmed records for United German & French Cemetery reveal that Poles continued to be buried there, although in greatly diminished numbers, after St. Stanislaus Cemetery was established in 1890. Certainly there were a few prepurchased lots for couples and families (i.e., not all interments were single graves).<\/p>\n<p>[<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ampoleagle.com\/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=106&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=1490&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2519&hn=ampoleagle&he=.com\">read full story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 (Keith Kaszubik \u2013 AM-POL Eagle) The final resting place for many of Buffalo Polonia\u2019s forefathers is at St. Stanislaus Cemetery on Pine Ridge Road<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[1137],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-alive-churches","tag-saint-stanislaus-church"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-z4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}