Sunday, January 8, 2012

Semmes Like the Thing to Do

Yesterday, we managed to find the Catholic Cemetery in Mobile, Alabama.  Our objective was to find the grave of Confederate Admiral Raphael Semmes and also the graves of the Poet Priest of the Confederacy, Father Abram Joseph Ryan and baseball manager and player Eddie Stanky.

Part of the cemetery is very old and with fairly unreadable tombstones.  Unfortunately, there was no one around or office which would have helped locating the graves.  We drove around the whole place a couple times, and did not see Semmes' grave, which I had seen in pictures.

We were about to to give up and leave, when I noticed an Alabama state flag flyingby a grave, got out of the car and went over to investigate.  It was the grave of Father Ryan.  One down.

Still no Semmes, though, but I did notice another Alabama flag flying at another grave.  Hey, it just might be, so went over and there was Semmes' grave.  We had driven right by it a couple times. I got pictures at both graves.

A big thanks to the Semmes Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans for putting up those flags!!

We never did find Eddie Stanky's grave, but do know how he came to be buried in Mobile.  He coached the University of South Alabama's baseball team near the end of his life.

Objectives Mostly Found.  --Old B-Runner

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