Inscriptions and graves - Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

lOHow strangely occur references to the distant possesionsof this vast empire, as here in this quiet countrygraveyard is buried a daughter of Major McKie, EastIndia Company's service.Another U. E. L- name is found here : ElizabethShowers, wife of Peter Ball, born 1764, died 1844.The last interred here was John W. Ball, 1813-1890, for fifty years an office bearer in St. Mark's, theson of George Ball, the fourth son, who came in 1784.Peter Ball, 1755-1836 ; George Ball, 1765-1854 ;John Ball died 1822, aged 62 years, also CatherineOverholt, the wife of George Ball, who died in 1845,aged 59. "Eliza Maria, wife of John- W. Ball, anddaughter of Rev. Wm. Sampson of Grimsby, 1818-1856."Margaret, second daughter of George Ball, 1808-1894.It was to George Ball that the nephew of Sir IsaacBrock gave the General's cocked hat, which came outshortly after the death of that commander, and by theirdescendants is entrusted to the Historical Society.FIELD, BROWN, VROOMAN.Near the residence of Mr. Geo. Field, which is anhistoric house, having been used as a hospital in thewar of 1812, is a graveyard in which are interred membersof three families. The house near was built byGilbert Field, the first brick house on the river roadand before the beginning of the century. A tombstonetells us that he died in 1815, aged 50, while his son,Daniel Field, who fought at Detroit, Queenston andLundy's Lane, died in 1873, having received for his servicesa medal gained by the instrumentality of Hon.Wm. H. Merritt, as shown in a letter dated Quebec,1852.In another division of the plot is an inscription :"Sacred to the memory of Solomon S. Vrooman,born Dec. 5th, 1783, died Aug. 21st, 1874," also to hiswife, Mary Brown. S. S. Vrooman fought at QueenstonHeights and his picture appears in a group ofeight veterans taken in 1869 in front of the monument,their united ages being 609. The position of Vrooman'sbattery is yet pointed out. A thick gray stone