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Thomas Adams, born January 13, 1822, died November 6, 1873; "Lewis G. McDermott, wounded in the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, and died on the 30th in Hospital No. 6, Boonsborough, M'd., aged 23 years, 1 month and 12 day;" Lewis McDermott, a cousin of the former, wounded in the same battle, died sometime later; Arthur McDermott, died March 15, 1850, aged 58 years; Jane, his wife, died November 23, 1880, aged 84 years; Julia, wife of Charles Dillon, died November 15, 1898, aged 78 years.
Richard Nagle's remains are interred in St. Michael's cemetery, Loretto, as are also those of Felix Skelly, who died on the farm a couple miles southward of the present town of Wilmore, now owned by his grandson, James F. Skelly, July 3, 1835. Henry Nagle who lived near what is now Carrolltown, probably rests in St. Joseph's cemetery, Hart's Sleeping-Place. Where the remains of John Nagle repose, the writer can not say. Archibald Christy, Peter Kaylor, and --- McGough are probably buried in St. Michael's cemetery.
Masses Said at St. Augustine Before the Formation of the Parish.
It is probable that Father Lemke was the first priest to say Mass in the vicinity of St. Augustine. Mrs. Margaret Mary Delozier says that he was the first priest to so officiate and that he often said Mass in her father's house. It is doubtless certain that he said Mass in the house of Francis Hoover, close to the present church and in a school-house towards Beaver Dam. Father Hugh P. Gallagher, who succeeded Father Lemke as pastor at Loretto, in 1844, and his brother and assistant, Rev. Joseph A. Gallagher, doubtless often said masses in farm houses before the dedication of the first church, which was in 1849.
Formation of the Congregation of St. Augustine.
It is a fact which may not have come to the knowledge of some of the present generation that not until the pulication of the decrees of the Council of Trent in the United States, by order of the Second Eacumenical Council of Baltimore in 1886, there were no parishes in the United States. The associations of the faithful were congregations and their pastors, missionary priests. Since the publication of the said decrees the congregations (except missionary sta-
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