Hi John, At the present time, a metal building occupies the exact spot the old church was built on. The building belongs to a lumber yard in Boaz however the cemetery is still there just to the east. If I'm not mistaken, the church was St. Mathew's Catholic. The old cemetery is located directly south of and shares a boundry line with Boaz Cemetery. I can't help you with information on the old records. Ask Sandy at <A HREF="mailto:RICHLANDCTYHISTORYROOM@YAHOO.COM">RICHLANDCTYHISTORYROOM@YAHOO.COM</A> , maybe she can shed some light on the subject. <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/djnsl/page123.html">Go to St. Mathew's here</A> Dennis Cook

The older records for many of the old, closed parishes for the Diocese of LaCrosse are held at the Diocese now-- addresses might be found at their website (I don't have the url handy, but I located it through a general search engine). I'm not sure if there is a fee schedule or recommended donation for this service or not. There is also an older book with the history of many small Catholic parishes of the nineteenth century called "The Catholic Church in Wisconsin". I think one may be at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin-- again, the card catalog is on the site. I had found detailed histories of the small parishes of Henrietta and Westford townships in this book. Another resource might be a larger parish. If the smaller parish of Boaz was a mission of another church, records or historical information might be found now at the larger church. For example, St. Pat's of Henrietta was a mission church of ST. Anthony's in Caz. It was closed in the 1960s and never put out a history book, directory, or remembrance type of book itself...so in the Centennial History for ST. Anthony's does include a detailed history of ST. Pat's and St. Bridget's, their two mission churches. Just some ideas. Good luck. Cindy McCarthy DJNSL@aol.com wrote: > Hi John, > > At the present time, a metal building occupies the exact spot the old church > was built on. The building belongs to a lumber yard in Boaz however the > cemetery is still there just to the east. If I'm not mistaken, the church was > St. Mathew's Catholic. The old cemetery is located directly south of and > shares a boundry line with Boaz Cemetery. I can't help you with information > on the old records. Ask Sandy at <A HREF="mailto:RICHLANDCTYHISTORYROOM@YAHOO.COM">RICHLANDCTYHISTORYROOM@YAHOO.COM</A> , maybe she > can shed some light on the subject. > > <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/djnsl/page123.html">Go to St. Mathew's here</A> > > Dennis Cook > > ==== WIRICHLA Mailing List ==== > Search the list archives: > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl - put WIRICHLA for > the name of the list