Title Info: Saint Barbara’s Croatian Cemetery

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Introduction The Santa Barbara #39 Cemetery index lists individuals interred at the Santa Barbara #39 Cemetery in Roslyn, WA (Kittitas County). See photos. It is one of 27 identified burial places in Roslyn, WA. View information about Roslyn’s cemeteries here. Index information about an individual may include: name, birth date, birth place, death date, and names of family members. Index data was compiled by Maggie Rail, a member of the Washington State Cemetery Association, who has transcribed over 400 cemeteries since 1993.

Abbreviations used in this index:
b.= born
c/o= child of
d.= dead
h/o= husband of
P= Plot
s/o= son of
s/w= stone with
w/o= wife of

There are 118 individuals listed in this index.

Notes from transcriber Maggie Rail, August 2001:
This cemetery is one of the cemeteries on the northern side of the group of cemeteries in Roslyn, WA. To reach it drive west through Roslyn on Pennsylvania Ave. Continue hanging left till you reach Memorial Road, where you turn left or south. You will have to either drive all the way around the different cemeteries or catch the first road up the hill to your right. I never did find it coming in. The road up past the Old City Cemetery will come out on the upper road, then left. Lat: 47° 13' 15", Lon: 121° 00' 11"W T20N R15E Sec 17. See map.

St Barbara Cemetery is a Slavic Lodge cemetery. Some call it Santa Barbara and others say Saint Barbara.

I really did not keep good track of the rows, so I will only label them when I am sure. Row 6 was near the Starkovich #1 cemetery, on the east side of St. Barbara. This row was difficult to tell which cemetery it should be in when I walked it. Later I found information which said it was part of St. Barbara. The rows on this side were separated from the adult burials because it was the children's area when the cemetery was first started. The adults were buried on the opposite side of the cemetery, with this huge gap in the middle with no burials. I did find others buried on this side besides children, so apparently that is not practiced anymore.

The opposite or west side of Santa Barbara cemetery abuts to the small, abandoned Sokol Lodge Cemetery. Many of the markers were written in their native language, of which I cannot read, I did my best to get the dates from them. Sometimes they are difficult to decipher even then.

I surveyed this cemetery on Aug 20, 2001, using pencil and pad, plus my digital camera. Transcribed and compiled 2001, last edited Nov 30, 2008.


This index is in English.

This index is open for research.

Citation: Preferred Citation:[Identification of item], Santa Barbara #39 Cemetery Index, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov,[date accessed].

Source: Index and transcription notes were donated to the Washington Historical Records Project by Maggie Rail, Historical Records Project, August 2009.
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