The Kemer (Caravan Bridge) Catholic cemetery was one a group of neighbouring cemeteries all destroyed by the Municipality that wished for the unimpeded growth of the city in the 1970s and 80s. The other cemeteries included, and all destroyed before the Catholic one, were the Armenian, German Protestant, Austrian, Dutch and Anglican, of which no written records survive. In his foresight Mr Livio Missir conducted a survey of the Latin Catholic cemetery, complete with a small plan and detailed history outlined in a 122 page report in French published in the scholarly Greek Journal of “Mikrasiatika Chronika”, published in 1972, Athens. Click to view a segment here:

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The tombstone of Frederick Offley, now resting at the Izmir Archaeological Musueum in Izmir, from a former cemetery, possibly the Kemer Anglican one (not listed in the Catholic one of that region). He was a one time US Consul of Smyrna. Frederick Offley was the son of David Offley (1779-1838) and Elena Curtovitch (his second wife). David Offley in turn was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA on 8 Sep 1779 to Daniel Offley and Judith Scull. David married Mary Ann Greer and had 5 children. David married Elena Curtovitch and had 8 children. He passed away on 4 Oct 1838 in Smyrna, Turkey - information derived from Ancestry.com.