Old St. Adalbert Cemetery

               developed in the late 1870s

Even death dies here at old St. Adalbert’s. 
Rain and frost have wiped away the names 
and dates from limestone grave markers 
as ants and grasshoppers scratch their own 
obituaries where once human ones stood.

Grave renters lost their squatter’s rights 
after a year if someone bought the plot 
and simply pushed the renter down 
with no record of who he or she was.