Dunwich – McKenzie Cemetery

McKenzie Cemetery

Has no 911 number, located by a ravine near the river. On the north side of the McKenzie Line.

Lot 5, Con A, Broken Front

Dunwich Township, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada

Gravestone Inscriptions

Elgin County Branch OGS

July 2003

Revised and formatted for the Internet and Mobile Devices 20 August 2017 by Bruce C. Johnson Jr.

Latest Revision 6 December 2006 by Carol VanHarn

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This small local cemetery  in a remote location is in a terrible condition of neglect.  Stones are broken and animals are digging among the graves, burying markers and digging up bones. It is located in a wooded area on a hill overlooking the Thames River.  It is enclosed by a chain link fence donated by Mrs. Tena McGregor and erected by Kenneth Staddon.  To reach this cemetery, one must cross a field on the north side of the road allowance.

Transcribed in 1983 by Donald Carroll, Jean Drummelsmith, Mary Prud’Homme, Yvon Prud-Homme, Norma Schnekenburger, David Vanseader and Beverly Walker, for the West Elgin Genealogical & Historical Society.

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1.    Large limestone lying flat on ground
In / memory of / John MATHESON / a native of Lochalsh / Ross Shire, Scotland / who died / June 18, 1864 / aged 82 y’rs / Erected by his son / Donald MATHESON / Few are thy days and full of woe / A man of woman born / Thy doom is written:  dust thou art / And shall to dust return /