Area 6 Work Project

On June 4th 40 Rotarians from the Area 6 Rotary Clubs met in Gilroy to work on the Area ^ Work Project, hosted by the Gilroy Rotary Club. The project was a clean up of the Old St.Mary's Cemetery. Located off Church Street across from St.Mary's Church, the cemetery has been around over 100 years. The work project included removing weeds and debris, filling holes in the ground trimming of tree branches and making a new rock walk way to allow visitors to enter into the cemetery to visit the grave sites. In addition, cataloging the grave sites was another project that was completed during the day.

For the Morgan Hill Rotarians working that day, we were surprised to see grave sites for many of the early families that were prominent in starting Morgan Hill. Grave sites for the Murphy family and Dunne families, that were over 150 years old are in the cemetery.

The cemetery was not easy to find, hidden by a small alley off Church and First Street. Once we found the site the work began. After 3 plus hours of pitching in, the Rotarians were treated to lunch in the home of Joanie Lewis, a Rotarian from the Gilroy Sunrise Club.