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Articles and information about Holy Rood Cemetery: Holy Rood Cemetery I - origin, Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown Holy Rood Cemetery II - transfer to the Archdiocese of Washington, 1942 Holy Rood Cemetery III - no room at the inn & digging up the dead, 1984 Joseph Nevitt - Minuteman & revolutionary war veteran Slave Burials - for those too poor to even own themselves The Unquiet Grave of Susan Decatur - converted to Cathaloicism, buried on Georgetown University grounds, relocated to Holy Rood and then exhumed and buried a third and final time in Philadelphia. The other 900 bodies originally buried with her on the Georgetown campus are landfill somewhere. Union Veterans Confederate Veterans
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