Monuments of the Past: Cavalry Catholic Cemetery, Galveston, Texas

Dear readers, some of you may remember that I wrote about Galveston's Old City Cemetery in 2014. In the early 1980s, I took some Kodachrome slides of mausoleums in a Galveston cemetery but did not record the location correctly. A friend in Galveston did some detective work and found that I had photographed the Calvary Catholic Cemetery. It is located on the Island between 61st and 65th Streets.

Here is the mausoleum in 1984 and 2014, after cleaning and, possibly, new plaster.

The older part of the cemetery, near 61st Street, has a number of unusual tombs and mausoleums from the late-1800s or early 20th century. I do not know if victims of the 1900 hurricane are buried here.

 

Calvary Cemetery is a peaceful and interesting place to visit. But there is not as much statuary as in the Old City Cemetery.

The 2014 photographs are from a Nexus 4 phone with files reprocessed with PhotoNinja software to reduce noise. I took the 1984 photograph on Kodachrome slide film using my Leica M3 camera and 50mm ƒ/2.8 Elmar lens.