Inscriptions and graves - Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

62CHIPPAWAThe graveyard round Trinity Church is evidentlyold, as around the three sides may be seen the stumpsof rows of immense trees which from their weatherworn appearance must have been cut down long ago.From the fact of this having been the scene of a battlewe might expect to find the graves of many militarj'men, but evidently these had all been "heaped and pent,rider and horse, in one red burial blent," for here theyare not found. The names most frequently occurringare well known to those who have studied the earlyhistory of this old settlement, Cummings, Clark,Street, Macklem, McMicking, Kirkpatrick. Here arefound names showing foreign origin as Rapelje, Hugoe,Ives, Vinnidy, Billing, Shoemacker, Sibbit, etc.Close to the church in an enclosure covered closelywith vines are two handsome headstones commemoratingthe first minister, whose register of births, deathsand marriages from 1820 to 1837 has lately been found."Sacred to the memory of Rev. W.m. Leeming,late rector of this parish, who was appointed a missionaryto Canada by the society for the Propagationof the Gospel in Foreign parts in March, 1820 ; bornFeb. 25th, 1787 ; died June 1st, 1863. Thy will bedone.""Sacred to the memory of Margaret Hickson, forthirty years and upwards the affectionate wife of Wm.Leeming, firstdied April 6th,minister1853."here, born Oct. 21st, 1777,In a large square enclosure of stone and irontwo of the old altar tombstones :are"Sacred to the memory of Thomas Clark, a nativeof Dumfries, Scotland, who died in 1837, aged 67,and for more than twenty years was an independentmernber of the Legislative Council of this province,having lived in this province from its earliest settlement,and by persevering industry and strict integrityprocured for him general respect, while his kind dispositionand becoming deportment endeared him to numerousfriends, by whom his death will be long and deeplylamented. His sisters, in grateful recollection of theiraffectionate brother, have erected this tablet to hismemory."