Jacob P. Zent was born in Spier Russia, February 16, 1887. His wife, Rose Kupper, was born in Sultz, Russia, September 13, 1889. They migrated to Mandan, N.D., where their first child, Emily was born July 26, 1911. The family increased to eight by the birth of two more girls, Isabel and Tillie and five…
Mount Saint Joseph Necrologies
The Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph Necrology contains biographical information for Sisters buried at Mount Saint Joseph Cemetery.
Many entries include a Marker Location (for example, “Row D No. 55”), which corresponds to a location on the cemetery map.
Sister Dorothy Marie Willett
Anna Ursula Willett was born on October 8, 1921, in Waverly Ky., the fourth child of James Edward and Jane Isabel Perdue Willett. The family grew to eight, including brothers Thomas Edward and Joseph Vernon and sisters Theresa Bernadette, Dorothy Jane, Doris Hiltrude, Mary Kathleen and Rose Marie (Sister Rosita, OSU). When Anna Ursula was three…
Sister Mary Cordelia Spalding
Mary Martha, born October 15, 1918, on a farm near Beech Fork River in Nelson County, Ky., was the oldest child of Archibald Aloysius and Mary Edna Bowling Spalding. Mary Martha had six siblings — two brothers, Charles Sylvester and Joseph Leo; and four sisters, Emily Rose, Lucy Regina, Elizabeth Ann and Margaret LaVerne. Because…
Sister Theresa Marie Wilkerson
Mary Louise, the first child and only daughter of James Wallace and Earmena Catherine Hay Wilkerson, was born May 16, 1920, in Owensboro, Ky. Her father was a telegraph operator and her mother stayed at home to raise her daughter and the five brothers that came along later —Thomas Carl, James Wallace, Gerald Martin, Robert…
Sister Mary DeChantal Whelan
DeChantal Whelan came into this life November 10, 1914, on a farm near Curdsville, Ky., the daughter of Joseph Leslie and Florence Eugenia Neal Whelan. She was the sister of Ruth and five brothers: Francis, Robert, Tom, Aloysius (called Tim) and Jim. Her mother named the baby DeChantal. DeChantal’s father, who didn’t like it, usually…
Sister Mary Clement Greenwell
Mary Magdalen Greenwell was born April 22, 1908, in Curdsville, Ky., to Matthew Greenwell and Elizabeth Sauer Byrne Greenwell. Elizabeth Sauer had four children —Leo, Michael, Wallace and Anna Marie— from her first marriage to Augusta Byrne. One year after her husband’s death, Elizabeth married Matthew Greenwell. Mary Magdalen was the first of the seven…
Sister Agnes Irene Bickett
Agnes Lucille Bickett was the 12th and last child born to James Henry and Alma Stewart Bickett of Uniontown, Kentucky, on August 18, 1917. Her four brothers were James Louis, Robert Paul, Lucian Nathan, and Benjamin Franklin; her sisters were Mary Jo, Mary Ellen (Sister James Alma OSU), Alice Cecilia, Margaret Catherine, Mary Blanche (Sister…
Sister Mary Bertha Wethington
Catherine was born to Albert Clarence and Mary Bertha Clements Wethington on April 24, 1906, in Clementsville, Ky. She was one of 12 children: nine brothers ─ Carl, Albert, Frank, Aloysius, Louis, John, William, James and David; and two sisters, Mary Louise and Betty Jane. The family moved to Beardstown, Ill. Catherine entered first grade,…
Sister Margaret Joseph Aull
Margaret Anna was born March 2, 1922, the third child in a family of 15 to Michael Xavier and Mary Pauline Mattingly Aull of Knottsville, Ky.: Theresa Elizabeth, Thomasina, Mary Naomi (Sister Naomi OSU), Mildred (Sister Marie Michael CP). William Guy, Robert Eugene, Joyce Marie, James Leo, Beverly, Joseph Allen, Joseph Harry, and Anne Carolyn. Two children…
Sister Anita Flaugher
Eva Warren was born August 27, 1911, into the family of Gwynn Marvin and Eva Elizabeth Wathen Flaugher of Fairfield, Ky. She had four brothers: Gwynn Marvin, Edwin Drury, Charles. and Wilfred Wathen; three sisters: Alice Carpenter, Evelyn Mae and Mary Freda. The Flaugher family were members of St. Michael parish and attended the parish…