SAINT BERNARD · NEW HAVEN · SB-R001

James Hilary Harding

Historical burial reference

Birth · source text: 1812
Death · source text: 1889-05-25
Section clue: Not recovered
Lot clue: Priests’ lot (historical wording)
Death certificate: Not obtained
Burial permit: Not obtained

What the source tells us

O’Donnell, printed page 450. Priest and chaplain at St. Francis Orphan Asylum. Historical text explicitly places his remains in the priests’ lot. Exact lot number and grave not supplied.

Source SB-S008

James H. O'Donnell: History of the Diocese of Hartford (1900)

Open the cited source

Five original page images and OCR included. Reviewed for this edition September 8, 2026.

Included evidence

James Hilary Harding: death and priests’ lot burial · View original scan

Location and interpretation

Section and lot wording is preserved as a clue. An authenticated internal plot plan has not been obtained. Some early Catholic memorial stones were moved here from Christ Church; a stone does not establish that the remains were moved. Consult the cemetery operator for completed interment records.

Cite this record

Silent Grounds Collective, “James Hilary Harding,” Saint Bernard Cemetery, New Haven Research Archive, SB-R001, initial research edition, September 8, 2026. Evidence: SB-S008, https://archive.org/details/historyofdiocese00odon. https://ctcemeterycollective.org/collections/saint-bernard-cemetery/records/sb-r001. Evidence status: Historical burial reference.