Old Wesleyan Methodist (or Shillington) Cemetery, Carleton County, Ontario

By Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society

This book includes transcriptions of the names and information engraved on all of the surviving gravestones in the Old Wesleyan Methodist (or Shillington) Cemetery, on the 5th Line (East 1/2 Lot 12) of Goulbourn Township, Carleton County, Ontario. 

Contents include:

• Introduction
• Cemetery plan/map
• Images of documents, and photos of the site
• Transcriptions of memorial stones (including images of the restored cemetery stones)
• Index   Browse the complete Index

Background:

Arrangements for the provision of a burial ground had been concluded as early as 1842. The earliest burial recorded on a stone from the 5th Line Cemetery is that of Jane, wife of Henry Hare in 1827. The last burial recorded is that of Elizabeth (Ebert), second wife of Wm. Sample, died in 1906. 

Following the establishment of the Munster Cemetery on February 2, 1886, the old Shillington Cemetery was eventually abandoned. 

Details

• 38 Pages 
• 8.5 X 11"
• This new edition published by Global Heritage Press, 2018  ISBN 978-1-77240-106-6 (coil bound) 
• Originally published by Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, Ottawa, 1974 and issued as Publication #74-16 (no ISBN issued)