Captain Grant Marsh                    (1834-1916) made the record books in the aftermath of Lieutenant Colonel George Custer’s Last Stand. In a navigation feat never equaled, Captain Marsh brought more than three dozen wounded survivors of Reno Hill from his landfall at the mouth of the Bighorn River to the hospital at Fort Abraham Lincoln—a distance of more than 710 miles down the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers—in just 54 hours. Marsh’s arrival at the Dakota Territory fort at 11 p.m. on July 5, 1876, brought first word of Custer’s monumental defeat to a stunned America.

Alexander McKenzie                    (1851-1922) was a Bismarck pioneer, entrepreneur, railroad agent, law enforcement officer, and “political boss.” He is widely credited with securing Bismarck as the new capital of Dakota Territory in 1883.
 

John Burke (1859-1937)                N.D. Governor from 1907-1913

Walter Jeremiah Maddock
(1880-1951)
Democratic politician and N.D. Governor from 1928-1929

John Moses (1885-1945)
N.D. Governor from 1938-1944

George Frederick Shafer
(1888-1948)
N.D. Governor from 1929-1933

Ascension  - Bill Wolf                                          Corpus Christi - Jerome Volk
Cathedral - Tim Fay                                            St. Anne's - Deacon Jerry Volk
                                     St. Mary's - Les Mason

N 23rd Street and E Avenue D                    806 E Broadway Ave
Bismarck, ND 58501                                   Bismarck, ND 58501

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With springs arrival, we being our spring cemetery cleaning. Over the winter, many items get placed on graves. The cemetery rules state all things placed on graves except one week before and two weeks after Memorial Day must be in a vase attached to the headstone base or on the headstone itself. This includes solar lights, flowers, stuffed animals, photos, etc. We will be removing all items that do not meet this criteria April 15th so we can complete our spring cleanup. Flowers can remain on graves through June 17th, 2018. 

If you have any questions, contact Deacon Rex McDowall, Cemetery Manager, 426-2097 and mcdowall@midco.net

Serving the Community Since 1878

Founded in 1878, over 8,600 people are placed in the cemetery's care. Famous and influential leaders such as Grant Marsh, Alexander McKenzie and numerous priests and bishops from the Diocese are buried here.

St. Mary's Cemetery serves the communities of Bismarck and the surrounding area. It is also the primary cemetery for the five Bismarck Catholic parishes.