Inscriptions and graves - Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

90ing a visit at the house of the rector of this church,while her husband was absent in England and her childrenat a distant school. She was the eldest daughterof John Johnston, Esq., and Susan, daughter of Waubojeeg,a celebrated war chief and civil ruler of the OdjibwaTribe.Carefully educated and of polished manners andconversation she was early fitted to adorn society, yetof retiring and modest deportment. Early imbuedwith the principles of true piety she patiently submittedto the illness which for several years marked herdecline and was inspired through seasons of bodily andmental depression with the lively hope of a blessed immortalityHere rests by kindred hands enshrinedAll of the loved one earth could find,The form, the eye, the heart, the handSo gentle once, so kind, so bland.Death came unlocked for, yet his treadShe met so calm, so free from dread.Like angels winged to happier spheres.She smiled to quit a world of tears.We mourn not then as those who seeNo glorious bright eternity,But while this stone fond hearts upraiseGrief best bespeaks our love and praise."This memorial (the maker from Albany, N. Y.,) isno doubt placed here by her husband, the Schoolcraftwho wrote such valuable works on the North AinericanIndian.A granite monument lately placed is to the firstrector :"Sacred to the memory of Rev. Ralph Leeming, ofYorkshire, England, ordained by the Bishop of London,first Missionary, Society for the Propagation of theGospel in Foreign Parts, to the Gore District and firstRector of Ancaster, born 1789, died 1872, aged 83."A large flat stone tells a pathetic story, showingthat the "stranger within the gates" was not neglected:"Eliza M. Johnston, of Rochester, N. Y., died1827, aged 17.A stranger's gravePlaced here by her local respected friends."