Louisa Catherine Dorsey

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Louisa Catherine Dorsey

Date of Birth: 22 April 1863

Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland

Parents: John Dorsey

Catherine Lillis

Date of Christening: 26 April 1863

Place of Christened: St Peter's The Apostle

Baltimore, Maryland

Godparents: Joseph Hickey

Mary Hickey

Date of Death: 13 March 1882

Place of Death: Baltimore, Maryland

Date of Interment: 15 March 1882

Place of Interment: St Peters Cemetery

Baltimore, Maryland

Biography: Louisa Catherine Dorsey was 18 years old when she died. Looking through the records you find many children and young adults that died of diseases that no longer exist or are considered a minor inconvience. Louisa was one such young adult. It must have been devastating to lose one so young and in the prime of her life. If you read the obituary from the newspaper it tells it all. The cause of her death according to the death certificate was Plumonary Consumption. Her parents had a poem placed in the obituary column in the newspaper. It read:

Alas! That flower of early bloom

Should fade so soon away

The blossom of our once bright home

Is cold and still today

All is dark within our dwelling

Lonely is our home today

For the one we loved so dearly

Has forever passed away

By her sisters and brothers.

Louisa was buried in St Peter's Cemetery which is located on Bentlou Street in West Baltimore. It is mostly an Irish Catholic Cemetery that has been allowed to go in total disarray. Lloyd and myself have been to the cemetery to look for Samuel Magaha's grave and found it overgrown with weeds. Their records are very skimpy at best and except for the very front of the cemetery which has been cleared, the rest of the cemetery is impossible to find anyone else grave. On December 19, 1901 Louisa was reinterred at New Catheral Cemetery along with many of her sibilings and also with her mother and father.

those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it