Officially St Joseph Cemetery. But known to locals as Old St Joseph Cemetery and also as the German St Joseph Cemetery. (Versus the New St Joseph or the Irish St Joseph Cemetery, which is close to it).
Located in the suburb town of Price Hill, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio.
Saint Joseph Cemetery, located at the intersection of West Eighth Street and Seton Avenue in Price Hill, was consecrated as a German Catholic cemetery in 1843. The majority of names on the stones are German, and several of the older monuments are contain only German. Both of these facts attest to the large German population in Cincinnati and Price Hill in particular. In addition to the older sections filled with ornate monuments, Old St. Joseph contains a newer section filled primarily with flat foot-stones.
This cemetery, along with Saint John Cemetery, Saint Mary Cemetery, and Baltimore Pike Cemetery, are all operated by:
Cincinnati Catholic Cemetery Society
3819 West Eighth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45205
(513) 557-2306
The website provides a burial search of the combined cemeteries managed by the Cincinnati Catholic Cemetery Society.
The cemetery is located in the city of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio and is # 4597 (Old Saint Joseph German Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleums / Saint Josephs Cemetery) in “Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003”, compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.
The cemetery is registered with the Ohio Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing (ODRE) as St. Joseph Cemetery with registration license number CBR.0000980968.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 1056933 (Saint Joseph's Cemetery / Old Saint Joseph Cemetery / Old Saint Joseph's Cemetery).