Guardian Angels Catholic Church Cemetery

Guardian Angels Catholic Church’s Original Cemetery ?

Chaska Township, Carver County, Minnesota: T115N - R23W, section 5

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This cemetery was platted on a piece of land a mile and a half north of the downtown area of Chaska, Minnesota. The area where this cemetery was located is currently part of a townhouse development. Having said that, I suspect a good portion of the soils were removed from this site when highway 41 was constructed many years ago. As you travel up the Highway 41 hill you will notice a block wall and some houses that were built on what remains of the hilltop to the east of the block wall. The cemetery appears to have been in the area just west of this block wall.

This Cemetery was listed on maps as recently as 1880. The Carver County land records list this piece of land being sold to Bishop Thomas L. Grace by Mathias Gater (sp?) on July 23, 1863. Bishop Thomas Grace was the Bishop of St. Paul from 1859 – 1884. The land was described as two acres of land more or less. On October 18, 1880, Thomas L. Grace Bishop of St. Paul sold this piece of land to The Franciscan Brotherhood of Minnesota. On December 10, 1886, the Franciscan Brotherhood sold this two-acre piece of land to John Maertz (sp?). None of these entries specifically mention a cemetery.

There have been some rumors that the piece of land in Section 5 was used as an early cemetery for The Church of the Guardian Angels. Their current cemetery has been located in nearby Section 8 for many years. The piece of land in Section 8 was sold to Bishop Thomas L. Grace by Frank Misseler (sp?) on January 7, 1874. The 1874 entry mentions a cemetery in its description.

In "Chaska - A Minnesota River City, Volume I, The 1800’s", by the Chaska Bicentennial Committee, they wrote: ‘...At about the same time as the [newest] church was completed [1880’s?], the congregation acquired a new location for the cemetery. … Precisely when the first cemetery was established is uncertain, but when [the first cemetery] closed the people who had been buried there were re-interred at the new location. … (page 53) the soil conditions at the first site were very poor. Some 1877 remarks made about the first location do not indicate what the problem was. …By 1882, however, the church had acquired the site which still serves the church.’ (page 55)

When I reviewed the death and interment records of The Church of the Guardian Angels I found three death entries in 1866 with notations of 'Translatum,' These same entries were relisted in 1868 with notations of 'Vide supa' with their previous entry number. While not an expert in the language, I read these to be referring to the movement of burials from one location to another. These entries were likely made when the cemetery in T115-R23, Section 8 was first used. This places the opening of the Section 8 cemetery in 1868.

The Church of the Guardian Angels death and interment records begin in 1862. The entries between the first entry 1862 and the last entry of 1867 are listed in the chart below.

Name	Death	Burial	Age	Parents
Amrheim, Adamus	02/27/1867		50, born in Bavarus
Browers, child	01/12/1867			Browers, Jacobi
Derhaag, Beatrix, born Props	10/23/1865		37, born in Hollandia
Dolin, Eduardo	03/04/1862		34
Faber, Herman	03/21/1866		13 months	Georgii and Genovefae Faber
Franken, Anna Carharinae	07/05/1864	07/07/1864		Henrici Franken and Mariae Cath. Stoffels
Freischer, Paulus	02/18/1863		31
Gorz, Gerardus	10/10/1865			Jacobi and Catharina Gorz, in Coloniensi, Germaniae
Gretzinger, Martin Andreas	03/12/1862		33
Guender, Georgius	05/00/1868 - grave moved ?			Michaelis Guenser
Hein, Gertrudis	04/03/1863
Jeurissen, Catharina	11/21/1865	11/23/1865	11/11/1865 (gemini)	Leonardo Jeurissen and Elisabetha Peipers
Jeurissen, Josephus	11/21/1865	11/23/1865	11/11/1865 (gemini)	Leonardo Jeurissen and Elisabetha Peipers
July (?), Balthasar	07/08/1863
Keesmaker, W.	03/03/1866		23
Knoblach, Magdalena	04/27/1866	04/30/1866	11/25/1852	Josepho Knoblach and Barbara Winter, born Ballinger
Koehnen, Paulus	10/10/1865		2	Laurentis Josephis Koehnen and Mariae Elisabethae Pallans
Koers, Hubertus, widower	07/17/1867		62, from Hollandia
Lano, gemini (twins)	01/28/1867		11/04/1866
Michels, Barbara	02/22/1862		6
Pohl, Stephania Mathilde	02/24/1867		12/27/1864	Andrea Pohl and Maria Sherman, from St. Bonifacii
Rabben, Hermann	04/22/1866			Jacobi and M.G. Rabben
Salten, child	02/01/1867			Salten, Leonardi
Sanders, Caecilia	01/17/1866		infant	Petris Casperis and Annae Catharinae Sanders
Savelkoel, Dorothea	04/18/1866		03/05/1866	Michaelis Zavelkoel and Mariae Gertrudis Sluen
Schaefers, anonymus	11/18/1866		11/17/1866	Schaefers, Henrici
Schloegelmilch, Joannis - refers to Schloglmiller entry	09/00/1868 - grave moved ?
Schloglmiller, Joannes	11/04/1866		age 55, born in Badia
Schulpen, Maria Catharina	04/22/1864	04/25/1864	3 ?	Petri Christiani Schulpen and Anae Mariae Schmeits
Schutrop, Willi / Joannes Guilelmus	01/02/1866
Smeets, Joannes Petrus	11/08/1867		26, from Hollandia
Unterburger, Joannes	11/13/1865	11/16/1865	36, born in Ratisbonersi, Bavariae
Vogel, Joannes	08/17/1867		26, born in Frankenstein, Prussiae, Germaniae, Wratislavensi
Walter, Josefina	05/11/1866		15	Joannis and Evae Walter
Walter, Josepha	05/00/1868 - grave moved ?			Joannis Walter and Magdalena Knoblach

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