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the Smith family (fig. 66).
The St. Joseph cemeteries contain hundreds of copings (earthen burial plots). These are sometimes as high as three feet from the sidewalk, built that way so that a grave need not be dug deeply below grade. In them, families bury and rebury; this is also the custom with tomb burials; on one tomb there were the inscriptions df two dozen of its occupants. When wall vault* thot once bordered the cemetery on Washington Avenue were removed, monument dealers unfortunately were allowed to erect a row of poorly designed spall tombs* which spoil the entrance. Since 1966 when the Archdiocesan Cemetery group was formed, the cemeteries have been well managed and well maintained. In 1972 a bronze historical plaque was placed at the entrance of St. Joseph Cemetery No. 1 by the Archdiocesan cemeteries group.