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Cemetery in Daley

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Cemetery in Daley

1 The churchyard cemetery is located next to the wooden church. Only one gravestone remains in the cemetery. The tombstone is in the form of a granite vertical slab topped with a cast iron cross. It is the grave of the Skuriat siblings - Magdalena Wysocka and Tomasz Skuriat, with a preserved inscription: TU CORPSE/MAGDALENA ZE SKURIAT / WYSOCKA/ 2 NOVEMBER / 1852. / TOMASZ SKURIAT / BROTHER OF MAGDALENA/ DIED. R. 1899/. According to local residents, the cemetery was destroyed after World War II.
2 The active Catholic cemetery, created in the early 20th century, is located on the eastern edge of the village, 400 m from the church. The rectangular-plan cemetery covers an area of 0.9 hectares and is enclosed by a mesh fence and fields. The cemetery is dominated by graves from the 1st half of the 20th century.
Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography).
Bibliography:
  • „Cmentarze polskie poza granicami kraju” , raport, oprac. B. Gutowski, Warszawa 2022 (maszynopis).
  • Lewkowska Anna, Lewkowski Jacek, Walczak Wojciech, „Zabytkowe cmentarze na Kresach Wschodnich Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej. Województwo wileńskie na obszarze Republiki Białoruś”, Warszawa 2007.
Author:
Bartłomiej Gutowski, Salomea Grabowska
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