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4Niagara Methodist^^Niagara Historical MarkersH^Port Maitland'^'^Port Dalhousie Anglican 94Fort Dalhousie Presbyterian 95Queenston, Hamilton Family Graveyard 38Queenston, Brock's Monument 41Queenston, Brock Memorial Church 102Ridgeway 77, 117St. Anns 108St. Catharines Cemetery 49St. Catharines, St. George 47St. Catharines Monument 114Servos Family Burying Ground 8St. Davids 43Stamford, Presbyterian 51Stamford, St. John's 54Stamford, School Section 5 103Smithville, Methodist 109Smithville, Presbyterian ; 110Stoney Creek 83Turney Burial Plot ;. 51Virgil, Methodist 93Virgil, Baptist 99Vineland, Mennonite 100Warner's Burying Plot 45Welland, Burger's 68Welland, Brown 68
GRAVES AND INSCRIPTIONS IN THENIAGARA PENINSULA.By JANDST CARNOCHAN.^'Booh's in the running brooks.Sermons in stones and good ineverything."Sermons in stones ! Yes and far more : History,pathos and humor, morality, religion, patriotism, warning,inspiration, what shall we not find ? But of thenameless graves, whether in consecrated ground, or inthe plain, the cultivated farm once the scene of bloodywarfare, in the ruined fort, or in many a lonely spot wecan never or rarely know the story. Many of these forina page of history never to be wholly deciphered, butlet us try while we may, imperfectly though it be, toplace on record, from inoss grown stone defaced by timeor perchance ruder touch, the names and what we canpiece together of the early pioneers, whether men or women,poet or artisan, soldier or priest, legislator or farmer,teacher or sailor, and from these pages of the pastwe may learn lessons for the present or the future, lessonsof courage, of unselfishness, of generosity, of friendship,of patriotism, of duty, of religion. Then thevdied, shot do\\n by stealthy Indian, or French or Americanfoe, as now they give up their young lives onAfrica's arid veldt, but each inspired by the same adventurousspirit which has made the Briton, be he Celtor Saxcn, the pioneer in the world's progress, one ofthe factors in that "morning drum beat which encirclesthe globe" and proud that he is one of a nation "onwhose dominions the sim never sets."While most of the graveyards in the Niagara peninsulahave been visited and such help used as could heobtained from tablets on the walls of churches, monuments,church registers, tradition, historical records, ithas been found that there has been as much change inthe fashion as there is in dress or buildings. At onetime the stately periods, or long high sounding phrase.
Page 1 and 2: "Bucit amor patriae."Diadara l)i$to
Page 3 and 4: Bucit Bmor iPatrias."niagara l)t$to
Page 5: CONTENTS.AUanburgg7Ancaster Anglica
Page 9 and 10: an immense tree which had been cut
Page 11 and 12: "On the day on which the engagement
Page 13 and 14: IIdouble, with a perpendicular divi
Page 15 and 16: CO9)en*ncrc•-(ooq
Page 17 and 18: 1587!""John Clement, Esq., died Feb
Page 19 and 20: 17 -Near this is an inscription in
Page 21 and 22: 19"John Andrew Stevenson, born in D
Page 23 and 24: 21also the secretary and treasurer
Page 25 and 26: 23Pope's line, and the epitaph is u
Page 27 and 28: "This woman was full of good works
Page 29 and 30: Mary Rogers, relict of John Rogers,
Page 31 and 32: 29With the rather unusual text :"Bl
Page 33 and 34: 31the peace of Jerusalem, because o
Page 35 and 36: 33Cleland, Rev. J. W. Bell, M.A., a
Page 37 and 38: 35that of the above mentioned Rev.
Page 39 and 40: 37A new cenotaph has been erected w
Page 41 and 42: taken down, the bodies were removed
Page 43 and 44: 41BROCK'S MONUMENT.This noble shaft
Page 45 and 46: 43entrance it was discovered that a
Page 47 and 48: 45WARNER'S GRAVEYARD.In the Warner
Page 49 and 50: 47The names of StuU and Goring, Sec
Page 51 and 52: 49months curate of St. George's chu
Page 53 and 54: 5^"Orton Stone Phelps, 1812-1837,Ph
Page 55 and 56: 53The tragedy recorded above must h
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55Here is another bit of l^istory o
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57Laura Secord's Monument.
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59"Sacred to the memory of Lieut. W
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6i49th Regiment, other militia orga
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63That to his wife is in similar fo
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65THOROLD—DECEW'SNear this was th
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67"Sacred to the memory of George K
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69are buried. The son, Alexander Br
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7,1"In memory of Jean, beloved \vif
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73In the United Service Journal it
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75Whether Isaac Brock, who died 186
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RIDGEWAY.At Ridgeway the oldest ins
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79"In memory of Christian Burkholde
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8iOne peculiarity of this graveyard
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83of respect for his manly qualitie
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85"In memory of Jno. W. Crawford.De
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87Remember those which have the rul
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89The names Book, Pettitt, Nixon, A
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91Among a row of stones, all with t
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93VIRGIL METHODIST CHURCH.In this s
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95"In memory of Capt. Jas. Neil, a
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97Another asks a question, like tha
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99Here are buried James Munro, born
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loiGestorben den ten November 1812
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I03represented with the words, "Art
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105"Hon. James Crooks, 1778—1860.
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I07"Bridget, second wife of Rev.die
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109Merritt, Bowman, Freas, Ryckman,
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IllA small marble stone has this in
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Pillar Erected at Fort Erie.njHBWBB
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1T5HISTORICALINSCRIPTIONS.A few ins
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117"Here lies the body of Peter Cou
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Burch, J 61Burch, Lt. J. B 107Burge
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Hamilton, M 40Hamilton, Hon. J. & D
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Muirhead, B 7Munro, .1 54Munro, J.
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Varey, Geo 35Vernon, C. P. W 23Vroo
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