Greenbush Cemetery

The Greenbush Catholic Cemetery was attached to the St. Francis de Chantel Church located approximately 5 miles west of Princeton, MN and a few miles south of Hwy. 95.  In the 1930s, the church use was discontinued, their congregation split between St. Lawrence Church at Duelm and St. Edward's at Princeton.  Typographical errors are possible from these records.  Courtesy of Jeanine Reckinger, 205 N. 13th Avenue, Princeton, MN 55371 (763) 389-1088.

PEOPLE BURIED IN GREENBUSH CATHOLIC CEMETERY
Greenbush Township, Mille Lacs County, MN

The ledger from which this information was copied is no longer available for people to thumb through and the ledger goes back only to 1902.  Since the Greenbush Cemetery was established about 1874, you can see that there are records in that span of years researchers are still attempting to locate.  Researchers are told they are contained within journals which the early priests carried with them at a time when they served many missionary churches.  Attempts are being made to locate these records.  This list was copied from ledgers at St. Edward's Catholic Church, Princeton, Minnesota:

 

SURNAME	GIVEN	d. MDAY	d. Year	AGE	CAUSE	PARENTS, MISC. NOTES
Belair	Alex	June. 28	1906	3		f. Alex Belair
Belair	Ellen	June. 7	1916	81
Belair	Halyson	Mar. 2	1926	1d	lack of vitality	f. Leo Belair; baptism in home
Betzler	James	Feb. 28	1926	6 hrs.	carcinoma of bladder	SEEMS TOO YOUNG . . .
Borneke	Katherine	July. 78	1953	71		husb. Otto Borneke
Borneke	Otto	Sept. 1	1923	52	ruptured bowels	John and Mary (Schultz) Borneke
Boutin	Mary	July. 29	1906	51		f. Joseph Corge
Bracken	Anna	Jan. 19	1909	88		maiden name Mallam
Bracken	Owen	Feb. 28	1922	102	paralysis	f. James Bracken
Burke	Bernard	Sept. 25	1925	1y 7m		Pat J. Burke
Burkhardt	male	Mar. 3	1936		stillborn	f. Orville Burkhardt
Christianson	George	Jan. 22	1924	36	cancer of the liver	c. Andrew Christianson
Degelman	Lenora	July. 2	1929	15	TB	f. John Degelman
Deglman	Katherine	Aug. 29	1909	4 wks		f. Geo. Deglmann; moved St. Ed's 7/18/1947
Derry	Charles	June. 9	1924	14	diphtheria	f. Oneaia Derry
Dery	John	July. 22	1934	1 min.	premature	?? Dery
Deshaw	Eliza	Dec. 10	1902	72		f. John Grow; from Cornwell
Fradette	Fanny - Eva	July. 29		69	diabetes
Grow	Adeline	Aug. 3	1906	63		f. Jesmer
Grow	Edith W.	May. 14	July. 29	53	cerebral hemmorhage
Grow	Edwin P.	Jan. 26	1930	85	Bright's disease
Grow	Ella (Taylor)	Mar. 9	1936	47	pneumonia	husb. Thomas Grow
Grow	Frances	Oct. 30	1926	35		E. P. Grow
Grow	Leonard			4m		Lawrence and Helen Grow
Grow	Thomas H.	Sept. 18	1940	56	cerebral hemmorhage	George and Ellen (Taylor() Grow
Healey	Margaret	Nov. 30	1925	86
Heinen	Herman			4 days	convulsions	f. Frank heinen
Jesmer	Rose	June. 27	1911	72	Bright's disease	f. Louis LaFontesie(?)
Labbessonnier	Lucy	Feb. 21	1905	33		f. Peter Resh
O'Riley	Ralph	Oct. 21	1905	5		f. John O'Riley
Pederson	Clarence	Sept. 28	1978	75
Pederson	Ethel T.	Apr. 13	1976	70		h. Clarence Pederson; cond. bapt.
Pool	Anna	June. 23	1907			husband or father John Pool
Raiche	Louis	July. 18	1908	28		f. Peter Raiche
Raiche	Peter	Aug. 16	1921	89		Joseph Raiche
Rehaune	Eugene	June. 2	1918	44
Reibestein	Anna	Jan. 8	1907
Robideau	John	Mar. 17	1926	94
Robideau	Martha	July. 20	1907	28		f. Ed Grow
Schmidt	Frederick	Feb. 6	1932	74	myocarditis
Schmidt	Louise	Sept. 26	1928	68	diabetes
VanderWeyst	Brandon	June. 17	1996		Down's syndrome	Gary and Joan VanderWeyst
Wenberg	Francis	Sept. 14	1928	72	coronary schlerosis
Wenberg	Mary	Mar. 6	1907	35		lived at Brickton; father Ed Grow

Much of the following list was in a book "St. Edwards Centennial Year 1898-1998", but other information I gathered from wandering the cemetery, and from my research on the Robideau & Jesmer family.  --Teresa Mercier

Directions to the cemetery: From 169: go west on Hwy 95 for 4.6 miles; go south (left) on Apple Road (directly across from County 6) for 1.1 miles, to the "Y" in the road; take the right fork, onto 20th St, for 0.3 miles.  The cemetery is on the left, with a sign under a tree.

PEOPLE BURIED IN GREENBUSH CATHOLIC CEMETERY
Greenbush Township, Mille Lacs County, MN

* E.P. Grow    1844-1930
* Almira Grow          1 Jan 1848-29 May 1910   
Frank Grow     1891-1926
Edna M. Grow     8 Dec 1907- 27 Sep 1910
Ella M. Grow     1888-1936
Thomas Grow     1886-1940
Laurence Dery     Jan 1911 – Mar 1911
Charlie E. Dery    14 May 1912 – May 1920
Martha J Robideau (Wife of F.H. Robideau    18 Nov 1878 – 30 Jul 1907
* Joseph Robideau    22 Aug 1819 – 7 Nov 1891
* Margie Robideau (Daughter of Joseph and Kate)    31 Jul 1870 – 31 Mar 1881
* Willie Robideau (Son of Joseph and Kate)    7 Jun 1874 – 17 May 1881
* Louis Robideau    Died 3 Sep 1886, Aged 92y
Peter Robideau    13 Sep 1831 – 4 Apr 1905
Vina Bater (Peter and Julia’s Daughter, Malvina)    14 Feb 1869 – 21 Apr 1903
* Julia Robideau (Peter’s Wife)    1833 – 1926
* Greenwood (Possibly a translation of an earlier family name, Boisvert)    no dates
Louise Schmidt    1860 – 1928
Fred Schmidt    1855 – 1933
Baby Joseph Volder    19 Mar 1922
Caroline Rocheford    1822 – 1897
Louis Rocheford    1825 – 1901
Leonard Grow    1943
Ralph Newman (Baby Son of Mr & Mrs J.H. Neumann)    8 Jul 1889 – 8 Mar 1890
Catherine Neumann (Wife of F. Neumann)    Died 6 Apr 1891 26y,10m,6d
Joseph J. Malotte    1 Jan 1840 – 31 Oct 1889
John Goulet    22 Jun 1834 – 10 Apr 1917
Sarah Goulet (Wife Of John)    - 22 Jun 1855 (?!)
* Joseph Jesmer    5 Jan 1833 – 28 Sep 1901
* Mary Ann Jesmer    Died 26 Jul 1889 Aged 53y
* Ida (Daughter of J & M.A. Jesmer)    Died 13 Mar 1889 13y,3m,21d
Margorie J. Jesmer    14 Jun 1897 -
Henry Blair (Possibly a variation on an earlier name of Belair)    1826 – 1903
Ellen Blair    1836 – 1916
Freeman Blair    27 Nov 1903 – 1906
Aging Black 6’ Cross (Gone By 2004)   
Mary Wenberg    14 Sep 1822 – 6 Mar 1907
John A. Grow (Son of N.A. & A.J. Grow)    15 Nov 1868 – 22 Jan 1893
William A. Grow (Son of N.A. & A.J. Grow)    28 Jul 1879 – 8 Sep 1882
Nelson A. Grow    14 Nov 1841 – 10 Aug 1897
Maggie Burke (Wife of James Burke)    25 Nov 1866 – 12 Mar 1902
Isaac Perr    30 Mar 1891 Aged 60y
Eubit (Or Cubit) Morrow    Died 1 Jun 1897 Aged 80y
Michael Kennedy (Son of J. & P. Kennedy)    11 Jun 1898 – 28 Nov 1898
John Kennedy (Son of J. & P. Kennedy)    28 Apr 1891 – 5 Mar 1894
Edward Carmody    Died 28 Apr 1898 Aged 43y
Michael J. Carmody (Son of M.L. & M.A. Carmody)    3 Jun 1885 – 20 Feb 1886
Anna Reibestein    1844 – 1907
* Edith Grow    1880 – 1934
* Anna Grow    1906 – 1907
Owen Bracken (Born In Kings Co, Ire)    2 Feb 1820 – 28 Feb 1922 102y,26d
Anna Bracken (Born In Kings Co, Ire)    28 Mar 1821 – 19 Jan 1909
Betzler Our Darling Babies   
Pamela F. Enright (Wife of James D. Enright, Loving Parents of [6 Children, unnamed as may be living])    13 Mar 1945 – 20 Oct 1993
Otto Borneke    1871 – 1923
Kate Borneke    1881 – 1953
Ethel T. Pederson    9 Dec 1905 – 13 Apr 1976
Larence Pederson    14 Oct 1902 – 28 Sep 1978
* Edwin Deshaw (Son of Alex. Deshaw)    9 Mar 1872 – Aged 3y,7m,13d
Brandon Vanderweyst (Baby of Gary and Joan)   
* Children of J. & M.A. Jesmer    1879 & 1881

* = pictures available. Plus a pic of the Greenbush Catholic Cemetery sign.

Many of these families migrated from the Hogansburg area, Franklin County, NY in the mid 1860s.  See this Web pages to find many of these surnames (Robideau/Robidou, Jesmer, Grow, Belair, Boisvert, DeShaw, Carmody?, Malotte, Rocheford?):

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyfrankl/

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/franklin/

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