A History of the
SOUTH RAWDON UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH
Compiled By Helen Haley
South Rawdon, Hants County, Nova Scotia
1987
This is a list of those interred in the cemeteries listed in this book, with the kind permission of Helen Haley. Thank you so much Helen.
NAMES ON TOMBSTONES IN BAPTIST CEMETERY, CENTRE RAWDON
NAMES ON TOMBSTONES IN OLD CEMETERY, SOUTH RAWDON
SURNAME | GIVEN NAMES | BORN | DIED | AGE | ADDED NOTES | |
1. | AKER | Carolyn M. | Aug. 25, 1899 | 28 yrs | ||
Frances S. | May 14, 1926 | 76 yrs | w/o Hugh L. Aker | |||
2. | NORTHOVER | W. Henry | April 7, 1920 | 90 yrs | ||
3. | NORTHOVER | Mary A. | June 9, 1904 | 72 yrs | w/o Henry | |
Clementine | Sept. 18, 1886 | 19 yrs | ||||
4. | SANFORD | Edward Leslie | 1853 | 1906 | ||
Alida Rebecca | 1856 | 1929 | ||||
5. | MASON | Mary | Mar. 21, 1900? (Stone broken) | w/o Nelson Mason | ||
6. | BRYMER | James E. | (Stone broken) | |||
7. | MASON | Melissa | Nov 20, 1885 | 37 yrs | w/o Alex Mason | |
8. | LANTZ | Alberta | Dec. 3, 1900 | 27 yrs | w/o Silas B. Lantz | |
9. | BURGESS | Eunice E. | June 8, 1871 | 56 yrs | w/o Philip Burgess | |
10. | BURGESS | Philip | Jan. 16, 1890 | 74 yrs. | ||
11. | DIMOCK | Ann | Mar. 31, 1852 | 67 yrs. | w/o John Dimock | |
12. | BURGESS | John C. | Mar. 30, 1913 | 78 yrs 7 months | ||
13. | BURGESS | Eliza A. | June 9, 1888 | 46 yrs. | w/o John C. Burgess | |
14. | BURGESS | Lucinda R. | July 26, 1867 | 35 yrs. | w/o John C. Burgess | |
15. | BURGESS | Caleb | Aug. 5, 1853 | 70 yrs. | ||
Sarah | Aug. 5, 1886 | 80 yrs. | w/o Caleb | |||
16. | MCLEARN | A. Alice | May 10, 1854 | d/o John & Elizabeth McLearn | ||
H. Havelock | Feb. 19, 1860 | s/o John & Elizabeth McLearn | ||||
17. | MCLEARN | Archie B. | April 3, 1882 | 2 yrs. | s/o Rupert & Georgenia McLearn | |
18. | MCLEARN | George E. | Feb. 25, 1887 | 4 months | s/o Edward & Bessie McLearn | |
19. | BURGESS | Sarah Rebecca | May 3, 1873 | 14 yrs. | ||
Freddie H. | Jan. 30, 1873 | 6 months | children of John & Lucinda Burgess | |||
20. | WELLNER | Maria | Jan. 29, 1885 | 60 yrs. | w/o James Wellner | |
21 | WELNER | James | March 18, 1891 | 70 yrs. | ||
22. | MCLEARN | Marion A. | Dec. 28, 1889 | 7 yrs. 10 months | d/o Burpee & Amanda McLearn | |
23. | DAVISON | William | Nov. 19, 1855 | 68 yrs. | ||
24. | DAVISON | Mary | April 15, 1865 | 68 yrs. | w/o William | |
25. | WELNER | Edna | April 15, 1876 | 15 yrs. | ||
George | May 9, 1893 | 33 yrs. | ||||
26. | PHALEN | Lucinda Rebecca | Mar. 15, 1873 | 19 yrs. | d/o William & Sarah Phalen | |
27. | PHALEN | William H. | June 24, 1896 | 75 yrs. | ||
Sarah | 76 yrs. | w/o William | ||||
Ellen | Feb. 6, 1890 | 63 yrs. | w/o Capt. James Phalen | |||
28. | CANAVAN | Judson | May 3, 1900 | 51 yrs. | ||
Mary E. | Mar. 23, 1915 | 57 yrs. | w/o Judson | |||
Their sons: | ||||||
Francis H. | July 10, 1889 | 12 yrs. | ||||
Vincent G. | April 12, 1900 | 5 yrs. | ||||
Sergt. F.M. | Oct. 12, 1917 | 30 yrs. | Killed in action at Passchendaele | |||
James L. | Mar. 16, 1904 | 23 yrs. | ||||
Newton J. | May 28, 1918 | 29 yrs. | ||||
29. | KNOWLES | Joshua | May 28, 1875 | 55 yrs. | ||
30. | Stone Broken | July 5, 1876 | 88 yrs. | |||
Jane, his wife | July 2, 1876 | 84 yrs. | ||||
31. | KNOWLES | Susan | Sept. 13, 1855 | July 30, 1886 at Lynn, Mass. | w/o Thomas D. Knowles | |
32. | Stone Broken | No names visible | ||||
33. | DIMOCK | Hannah H. | dates broken off | |||
34. | DIMOCK | George E. | July 14, 1840 | Nov. 8, 1880 | ||
35. | WIER | Benjamin | Jan. 3, 1907 | 84 yrs. | ||
Mary C. | Oct. 8, 1902 | 73 yrs. | w/o Benjamin | |||
Oscar | Dec. 7, 1902 | 37 yrs. | ||||
36. | Stone Broken | No names visible | ||||
37. | WIER | Lalia | Mar. 22, 1895 | 38 yrs. | ||
38. | WIER | Fred B. | 1868 | 1928 | ||
39. | WIER | Annie E. | 1861 | 1936 | ||
40. | KNOWLES | Bessie B. | April 27, 1900 | 35 yrs. | w/o Adolphus C. Knowles | |
41. | MCLEARN | Edward M. | Feb. 27, 1909 | 48 yrs. | ||
42. | MCLEARN | Welton R. | 1892 | 1970 | (I know dates to be 14 Oct. 1892 - 3 Oct. 1970) | |
Alice R. Mason, his wife | 1895 | 1983 | (I know dates to be 28 Aug. 1895 - 11 Feb. 1983) | |||
43. | MCLEARN | Laurence Richard | 1933- | |||
Donna F. Elliott | 1945- | his wife | ||||
Maurice Shane | 1964 | 1979 | their son | |||
44. | Foot marker stone | Maurice | ||||
45. | MCLEARN | Richard | Dec.31,1894 | 66 yrs. | ||
Lois C. | 1832 | 1914 | ||||
46. | MCLEARN | John | Mar. 15, 1899 | 76 yrs. | ||
Elizabeth | 1829 | 1915 | his wife | |||
Amanda | 1864 | 1941 | ||||
47. | MCLEARN | John Clyde | Nov. 3, 1878 | Sept. 17, 1914 | ||
48. | MCLEARN | Rupert J. | 1854 | 1939 | ||
Georgenia R. | 1855 | 1944 | his wife | |||
49. | WIER | Fred A. | Dec. 5, 1907 | 24 yrs. | ||
50. | DIMOCK | William Burton | Mar. 27, 1878 | 42 yrs. | ||
May Eaton | Sept. 24, 1895 | 43 yrs. | his wife | |||
51. | WELNER | W. John | Nov. 28, 1897 | 86 yrs. | ||
F. Robert | June 23, 1893 | 22 yrs. | ||||
52. | MANNING | Abram | 1843 | 1924 | Born in England | |
Ellen, his wife | 1839 | 1925 | Born in Newport, N.S. | |||
53. | MASON | Annie E. Barron | 1900 | 1935 | w/o Harold C. Mason | |
54. | AKER | Michael | May15, 1891 | 72 yrs. | ||
55. | AKER | Alice | Stone Broken | w/o Michael | ||
56. | CREED | Roland H. | 1848 | 1927 | ||
Mary S. | 1851 | 1898 | his wife | |||
Hattie A. | 1859 | 1927 | Second wife | |||
57. | STERNS | Elizabeth | Oct. 24, 1860 | 53 yrs. 9 mos. | Relict of the late Edwin Sterns and second daughter of the late John Wellner | |
58. | MARIETTE | Mrs. Peter | Jan. 9, 1899 | 87 yrs. | Top of stone broken | |
59. | MARIETTE | Lalia Margaret | Aug. 3, 1898 | 21 yrs. | d/o Albert & Elizabeth | |
60. | MARIETTE | Mabel Edith | 1881 | 1962 | U.S. Army Nursing Corps. | |
61. | MARIETTE | J. Albert | June 26, 1918 | 74 yrs. | ||
Elizabeth A. | May 29, 1925 | 79 yrs. 6 mos. | his wife | |||
62. | HALEY | Annie Mae | 18 mos. | d/o Richard & L. Haley | ||
63. | MACQUARRIE | Daniel | 1840 | 1922 | ||
Lena | 1888 | 1929 | ||||
64. | MACQUARRIE | Jennie | Aug. 25, 1889 | 15 mos. | d/o Daniel & Martha J. MacQuarrie | |
65. | MASON | W. Henry | 1848 | 1944 | ||
66. | MASON | Clara | 2 weeks | Infant child of W.H. & Deborah Mason | ||
Bessie D. | 11 mos. | |||||
William L. | 26 days | |||||
Mable H.C. | Aug. 30 1915 | 11 yrs. |
These facts are not on the stones but are known to Helen Haley.
#30 - Stone broken - This is Thomas Knowles, s/o Jonathan & Mary Knowles. Jane, d/o James and Elizabeth McLearn. These can be verified by the registry of births & deaths in the South Rawdon Museum.
#29 - d/o Thomas & Jane Knowles.
#31 - d/o George & Elizabeth Creed. In Creed book.
NAMES ON TOMBSTONES IN NEW CEMETERY, SOUTH RAWDON
Letters depict unmarked graves
SURNAME | GIVEN NAMES | BIRTH | DEATH | AGE | NOTES | |
1. | MCCLARE | Ruth H. | 1910 | 1934 | ||
2. | MCCLARE | Ernest D. | 1867 | 1944 | ||
Ethel D. | 1872 | 1946 | his wife | |||
Ruth H. | 1910 | 1933 | their dau. | |||
3. | BLOIS | Martha M. | 1874 | 1944 | ||
James C. | 1881 | 1967 | ||||
WOOD | Ethel | 1883 | 1958 | |||
4. | MCLEARN | Watson D. | 1887 | 1939 | ||
Belle W. | 1895 | 1968 | his wife | |||
A. | MCLEARN | Infant | ||||
5. | CANAVAN | Charles Judson | 1883 | 1937 | ||
M. Viola Turple | 1895 | 1972 | his wife | |||
son Sto. Lloyd Frederick | 1919 | 1942 | RCN, World War ll | |||
Infant grandson | 1948 | |||||
B. | LETRIARD | |||||
6. | BROWN | Father, Gordon A. | 1914 | 1984 | ||
Mother, Myrtle M. | 1914- | |||||
dau. Ann Shirley | 1936 | 1978 | w/o Donald E. Desjardines | |||
7. | WARD | Charles Joseph | Dec.2,1947 | Apr.2,1948 | s/o Carl & Marie | |
8. | HALEY | Ida Mae | 1894 | 1971 | w/o Arthur Leslie | |
Arthur Leslie | 1896 | 1980 | ||||
9. | DIMOCK | Raymond | 1883 | 1962 | ||
Nellie A. | 1892 | 1976 | ||||
10. | MASON | DeWitt | 1895 | 1966 | ||
Alice P. | 1895 | 1967 | his wife | |||
11. | PURDY | H. Winnifred "Briton" | 1880 | 1955 | w/o Roy L. | |
Roy L. | 1889 | 1964 | ||||
12. | MCCLARE | Thomas Annis | 1904 | 1974 | ||
13. | HEATH | Dean | 1961 | 1980 | ||
14. | JUDGE | Earl Brandford | 1931 | 1981 | ||
15. | POOLE | Arthur L. | 1897 | 1984 | ||
Stella P. | 1897 | 1984 | his wife | |||
16. | MARKS | Pte. Samuel W. | July 26, 1978 | 79 yrs. | Manchester Regiment | |
17. | MCCLAIR | John E. | 1856 | 1932 | ||
Sarah Ann | 1869 | 1962 | his wife | |||
18. | MCCLARE | Herbert A. | 1897 | 1938 | ||
Izetta M. | 1905 | 1938 | his wife | |||
Jean M. | 1935 | 1938 | daughter | |||
19. | DIMOCK | Harris R. | 1917 | 1976 | ||
Helena | 1923- | |||||
stillborn daughter | 1955 | |||||
20. | DODGE | Avery Oliver | 1904 | 1962 | ||
21. | JOHNSTON | Percy L. | 1915 | 1978 | ||
Madge E. Dunbar | 1922- | his wife | ||||
C. | MCCLARE | Warren | ||||
22 | BLOIS | John | 1911 | 1969 | ||
23. | MCCLARE | J. Horace | 1895- | |||
Alice V. Lyon | 1897 | 1968 | his wife | |||
24. | MCCLARE | John Avery | June 24, 1926 | Dec. 13, 1926 | ||
Charles Gordon | Feb. 12, 1928 | Mar. 26, 1928 | ||||
25. | BLOIS | James H. | 1915 | 1986 | ||
Jean E. (Fenerty) | 1919 | 1979 | his wife | |||
26. | BLOIS | Russell J. | Oct. 19, 1957 | 2 weeks | ||
27. | BLOIS | James B. | 1878 | 1962 | ||
Sarah L. | 1886 | 1960 | his wife | |||
28. | MASON | Clara A. | 1883 | 1963 | ||
29. | BURGESS | Watson W. | 1868 | 1960 | ||
Harriet L. | 1870 | 1932 | ||||
Emma M. | 1870 | 1942 | ||||
30. | BURGESS | Clyde W. | 1903 | 1957 | ||
Erna L. | 1900 | 1987 | his wife | |||
D. | COLLIER | Infant | ||||
31. | BURGESS | Walter Scott | 1896 | 1982 | Father | |
Ealenor Lane | Feb. 15, 1925 | Daughter | ||||
32. | DAY | Charles Douglas | 1922 | 1964 | ||
Ceretha M. (Haley) | 1926- | his wife | ||||
Dianne Faye | 1954 | 1972 | their daughter | |||
Foot Markers: | ||||||
Pte. C. Douglas Day | 1920 | 1964 | Pictou Highlanders, C.A. | |||
Dianne | 18 yrs. | |||||
33. | SELLON | Hubert S. | Mar. 3, 1902 | Sept. 19, 1968 | ||
34. | WELNER | Herbert E. | 1864 | 1937 | ||
Annie M. | 1859 | 1939 | his wife | |||
35. | CANAVAN | Infant | 1970 | |||
36. | BATES | George R. | 1911 | 1972 | ||
E. | KELLY | Two infants | ||||
F. | DAVIS | Infant | ||||
37. | MURPHY | Ervin Walter | Dec. 19, 1971 | May 14, 1972 | s/o Ivan & Eileen | |
38. | BAXTER | Craig Owen | 1973 | 1985 | son | |
Bridget E. Sellon | 1940- | Mother | ||||
Eric Vernard | 1930- | Father |
These facts are known by Helen Haley, but not verified by any writings.
#4 - Belle W. - W. stands for Weldon
A. - Infant McLearn d/o Archie & Dorothy McLearn, stillborn 1961 Her name was Margaret.
#8 - Ida is d/o Leslie & Alida Sanford
Arthur is s/o Walter & Ceretha Haley.
#10 - Alice P. - P. stands for Pearl, which was the name she used.
#13 Heath, Dean s/o REv. William & June Heath
#24 - Both John A. and Charles G. are s/o Horace & Alice McClare.
#26 - Russell J. s/o James & Jean Blois.
#27 - Sarah L. - L. stands for Leile, which was the name she used.
#28 - d/o Judson & Elizabeth Mason.
D. - Collier s/o Neil & Norma Collier.
#32 - Foot marker date of birth is the correct one.
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