New St. Joseph Cemetery is a
Catholiccemetery located at West Eighth Street and Nebraska Avenue in
Cincinnati, Ohio in the
Price Hill neighborhood. The original
Old St. Joseph's Cemetery was founded at West Eight Street & Enright Avenue, in 1843 by Rev.
John Baptist Purcell, for English speaking Catholics. The new cemetery was created in 1853 following the
cholera outbreak which began in 1849, as the Irish section of St. Joseph Cemetery had reached its capacity, the new cemetery was located two miles (3 km) west. The
Old St. Joseph's Cemetery, was used mostly by German Catholics.[1]
Originally New St. Joseph's land plot was sixty-one
acres, but today the cemetery grounds encompass one-hundred and sixty-three acres, which was once part of the Terry family farm. The grounds are maintained by the St. Joseph Cemetery Association.[2]