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New Bronze Crucifix Dedicated
Above: Fr. Felix conducts the dedication and blessing of the new bronze crucifix at St. Mary Cemetery.
Many attended the dedication of the original concrete crucifix in the 1940s.
The cemetery's previous crucifix, now restored, has found a new home in the rosary garden.
The westward movement into Wichita County, Kansas, began as early as 1890. Land was readily available under the Homestead Act (160 acres) and was otherwise obtainable at the low price of $4.50 per acre. Since land in counties to the east like Rush, Ellis, etc. was becoming increasingly more expensive and hard to come by, some of the German-Russian immigrants originally headed for that area began m…
