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Zoo Employee Hero
| Patrick McAvoy, who died in 1906, is buried in Section 3 under an ornate, weatherbeaten stone that depicts his claim to fame in life. Patrick was employed at the Cincinnati Zoo. In the days before the zoo officially opened in September, 1875, a lioness escaped from a cage and attacked a donkey. Several employees attempted to corner the lioness but were bitten and clawed. | |
| The animal was then shot by McAvoy. Tradition holds he became an instant hero and renowned for never having to buy a drink at a bar in deference to his courageous act. | 
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Tiffany Granite Shipped Here
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Sometime between 1929 and 1932 the Williams family of Western-Southern Life Insurance Company fame purchased a single piece of granite from Tiffany's in New York City to mark their 30 grave plot. The monument is the largest single piece of granite in the cemetery and features Jesus stretching out his arms in an expression of love and welcome. The stone which was shipped at great expense to the fragile highway system of the time, is located in Section 1. |
| The Peter Palazzolo family has an impressive private mausoleum of rainbow granite in Section 8. For many years Mr. Palazzolo was a leader of the Italian community in Cincinnati. He is remembered for spearheading spaghetti dinners at Sacred Heart Church downtown. Throngs waited in block-long lines to enjoy Pete's tasty cuisine. The tradition continues at Sacred Heart Church in Camp Washington. The entrepreneurial skills and good deeds of the Palazzolos are well known and appreciated by the city and the archdiocese. | 
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| Although military funerals are not uncommon in the history of St. Joseph Cemetery, the largest by far occurred in recent times. Michael J. Pohlkamp, a lieutenant in the United States Navy, was killed May 13, 1992, in a mid-air collision in Pensacola, Florida. A veteran of the Persian Gulf War, he was buried from neighboring St. Dominic Church. By the time the hearse bearing 28 year old Officer Pohlkamp's body arrived at the gravesite, the last car in the funeral cortege had not left the church. Press and military personnel only added to the crowd that day. Pohlkamp's image is chiseled on his gravestone along with the word "Mizzou", comorating the hero's career as a swimmer at the University of Missouri. The gravesite is in Section 22. |
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