Prospect United Church Cemetery, Beckwith Township, Lanark County, Ontario (Pioneer Cemetery & Church)

By Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society

This book includes transcriptions of the memorial stones that were standing on May 25, 1975. This publication has extra value to researchers because it contains transcriptions from several decades ago.... some stones may no longer exist or be easily readable today. The transcribers published the results in 1976 

Contents include:

• Original title page including cemetery location details
• History of Prospect United Church and Cemetery (a Pioneer Methodist cemetery and church)
  • Early settlement
  • Rideau Circuit and the Methodist Church at prospect
  • Methodist Ministers of the Rideau Circuit (with dates)
  • Methodist Ministers of the Richmond Circuit (with dates)
  • Men of the Richmond Circuit who entered the Methodist ministry
  • The Methodist stone church at Prospect
  • Prospect Methodist cemetery
    
• Use of the cemetery recording -instructions for use of the plot map and numbering system
• References
• Addendum
• Transcriptions of the information recorded on memorial stones
• Cemetery plot plan/map
• Index to Memorial Stone Inscriptions Browse the Index 

Details

• 34 Pages 
• 8.5 X 11"
• This new edition published by Global Heritage Press, 2023  ISBN 978-1-77240-218-6 (coil bound) 
• Originally published by Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, Ottawa, 1976 and issued as Publication #76-56 (no ISBN issued)