26                 HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

CHAPTER X.-SECTION 1.-THE REV.  EUGENE FUNCKEN, C.R., IN ST.
AGATHA 1857 TO JULY 18, 1888.

    After the departure of Father Ebner, S.J., from St. Agatha, the parish was served by Rev.  Columban Messner, O.C., for about one year from St. Clement's.
    Father E. Funcken was born at Wanckum, a little village in Rhenish Prussia, not far from Venloo, in Holland.  He saw the light of day Nov. 28, 1831. His father was the school teacher of the village, his mother was a Dutch woman.  I-Iaving completed his gymnasium at Cologne, he went to Rome in 1851 and entered the newly-founded Congregation of the Resurrection, where he made his vows in 1853.  He was ordained at Rome, July 6, 1857.  Bishop De Charbonnel, of Toronto, asked the Superior to let him have one or more priests for Canada.  The Superior promised, and soon sent the newly-ordained Father Funcken and a young cleric, Brother Edward Glowacki.  Having traveled via Havre and New York, they arrived in St. Agatha on the 15th- of August, 1857, the Feast of the Assumption.
    On the day of his arrival he had a child's funeral.
    At that time the parish was pretty well provided with necessary buildings, etc.
    The church was fairly well furnished, the Rectory was good, so was the school.  The cemetery had been in use for many decades, but it was an ungraded hill and poorly fenced.  The parish was extensive and the people fairly well-to-do.  The parish included the villages of Waterloo, Berlin, Strassburg, Williamsburg, Mannheim, New Dundee, Shingletown, Petersburg, Baden, New Hamburg, Philipsburg, Bamberg, Erbsville and Rummelhart.  New Prussia and South East Hope were dependent missions.  All through this large territory Catholics were scattered more or less numerously.  They must have made a population of 600 families or more.  Many lived so far away that they could scarcely be expected to attend the church at all regularly, and would naturally not contribute much to its support.

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CHAPTER X.-SECT10N 2.-REV. E. FUNCKEN, CONTINUED.-THE CEMETERY.

    Finding the cemetery in poor condition, Father Funcken made it his first greater work to improve it.  It was a steep hill gradually ascending from the Petersburg Road to the rear limit.  A stone wall was first built along the road about 9 or ten feet high over the level of the road, then up the two sides.  When graded the wall was continued from one rear corner to the other.  This cost an immense amount of material and labor.  On the top of the wall neat little turrets were erected at equal distances from each other to receive the Fourteen Stations of the Cross.  Near the rear wall half-way between the corners, he had a nice small Gothic Chapel erected of brick crowned with a neat spire.  The wall on the south side was later removed when the cemetery had to be enlarged.  Its stones were used in the erection of a large addition to