Old Parish Burying Ground (Windsor, Nova Scotia)
The Old Parish Burying Ground is the oldest protestant cemetery in Windsor, Nova Scotia and one of the oldest in Canada.[1][2] The graveyard was located adjacent to the first protestant church in Windsor (1788). The oldest marker is dated 1771, twelve years after the New England Planters began to settle the area.
Notable interments
Susannah (Boutineau) Franklin (1762) by John Singleton Copley (wife of Hon. Michael Francklin; grandchild of Peter Faneuil), Uniacke Estate Museum Park
- Issac Deschamps
- Rev. William Ellis (clergy person)[3]
- Winckworth Tonge, grandson of Winckworth Tonge
- Rev. William Croscomb[4][5]
- William Hersey Otis Haliburton
See also
- Little Dutch (Deutsch) Church
- Garrison Cemetery (Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia)
- Royal Navy Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
- Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
- Hillcrest Cemetery (Lunenburg, Nova Scotia)
References
- ↑ Sketch of the old parish burying ground of Windsor, Nova Scotia : with an appeal for its protection, ornamentation and preservation
- ↑ - Historic Places
- ↑ http://www.hhennigar.ca/getperson.php?personID=I55194&tree=1&PHPSESSID=ae89b7313f04bd5e75e7750ab0346221
- ↑ http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-37131052100492D&R=DC-37131052100492D
- ↑ http://ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=319601&qryID=60348682-7e4b-4d37-bac4-989d6a29898f
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