Baptist Burial Ground
also known as
Nineteenth Mile Creek Cemetery
Lot 65, Concession 8
Yarmouth Township, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada
Gravestone Inscriptions
YA 806, OGS 5677
Submitted by, Tony Hofstee, Shawn Hofstee
Elgin County Branch OGS
April 1983
Revised and formatted for the Internet and Mobile Devices 20 August 2017 by BruceC.JohnsonJr.
Copyright by the Genealogical Society, Elgin County Branch 1982 – 2002
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This cemetery is abandoned and is not being maintained
This cemetery lies in a very secluded place. It is not very accessible and much damage occurs to the stones every year. It is supposedly in the care of the Yarmouth Township Council but since they cannot get equipment down there very easily they have let it deteriorate badly. During the summer most stones cannot be found because of the weeds growing over the stones. This cemetery has been transcribed about four times previously and each time some more stones disappear or are damaged beyond repair.
To get to the cemetery one must either go through the farmer’s field or climb down a hill, up another and down again.
The cemetery is located in the flats, west of the village of New Sarum, on the south side of Highway #3.
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Baptist Burial Ground Map (click to enlarge)
1. Stone
In / memory of / James OSBORNE / died / Aug. 21, 1870 / AE 50 ys 2 ms / & 17 ds / Husband thou art gone to rest / Thy toils and cares are over / And sorrow pain and suffering now / Shall ne’er distress thee more /
2. Broken stone, clasped hands
Sarah / wife of / James OSBORN / died / [illegible], 1876 /
3. Willow
In memory of / Susannah NOTT / died / Jan. 29, 1861 / AE 38 ys 3m & 9 d / She has gone whome we loved / So for a wile farewell / We soon shall met in heaven above / And there with God forever dwell / She has gone whom we loved / Then with a smile she said: / Blessed Jesus Oh! my love / Farewell for now I am dead /
3a. Broken stone
When the day of life is fled / Then with joy we hope to greet thee / Where no farewell tear is shed /
4. Broken stone
Dec. 13, 185? / aged 67 yrs / Call me not back to earth / To lose my crown / I’ve fought with sin & death / the victory’s won /
5. Broken stone – no inscription
6. Broken stone – son of the same / AE 1 y 4 m 17 d /
7. Stone
James DANGERFIELD / died / July 25, 1844 / aged 63 yrs / A native of Wottonunderedge / Gloucestershire, Eng. / Blessed are the dead which / die in the Lord / Hurd & Roberts / Hamilton /
8. Broken stone
left side – 1860 / AE 1 yr 3 mo / & 20 d’s / /
right side – ___ & Phoebe / SUMMERS / died / Sep. 6, 1860 / AE 6 y’s 6 mo / & 10 d’s
9. Willow
In memory of / John WILTON / died / May 13, 1861 / AE 75 ys /
10. Stone
In / memory of / Viola / dau of [William] & Sarah / OSTRANDER / died / Mar. 25, 1863 / AE 8 yrs / & 13 d / Weep not for me / [illegible] / [illegible] not dead [illegible] / [rest gone]
11. Broken stone – no inscription
12. Willow –
In memory / of / [rest gone]
13. Willow
In / memory of / Phebe M. / wife of / T. T. SUMMERS / who died / May 6, 1852 / aged 28 yrs / Friends or physicians could not save / This mortal body from the grave / Nor can the grave confine it here / When Christ shall bid it to appear /
14. Dove
In / memory of / Oscar / son of Hiram & Mary / CUMMINS / died Feb. 1853 / AE 3 yrs / & 3 ms /
15. Broken stone
AE 1 yr 8 m’s / & 22 ds / Dearest ______ / Here thy loss we deeply mourn / But to God that hath _____ / He can all our sorrows heal /
16. Broken stone, lamb[this stone may be part of #15]
In / memory of / Velma / dau of Isaac & _____ / OSTRANDER / died May ? /
17. Stone
In / memory of / Jerusha / wife of / Isaac OSTRANDER / who died / Feb. 17, 1852 / aged 20 y’rs / & 5 ms /
18. Stone
William / son of / Jacob & Mary / OSTRANDER / died / Sep. 4, 1844 / AE 26 yrs 2 mos / 14 ds / A little time on earth he spent / Till God for him his angel sent / And then on time he closed his eyes / To wake in glory in the skies /
19. Stone
In / memory of / Dea’cn Hosea BAKER / died / Apr. 4, 1868 / also his wife / Rachael Ann / died / Sep. 23, 1870 / AE 73 ys 10 ms / & 15 ds / Bury the dead and weep / In stillness o’er thy loss / Bury the dead in Christ they sleep / Who bore on earth his Cross / and from the grave their dust shall rise, / In his own image to the skies / J. W. Smyth / London /
20. Stone
Left – In / memory of / Steven BAKER / died / Aug. 10, 1849 / aged / 65 y’rs / /Right – In / memory of / Maria / wife of / Steven BAKER / died / Aug. 16, 1864 / aged / 84 yrs / natives of Wiltshire, England /
21. Broken stone
wife _____ / _____es Br____ / who died / April 4, 185? / aged 63 yrs 1 mo / Mother thou art gone to rest / Thine is an earthly tomb / But Jesus summoned thee away / Thy Saviour called thee home /
22. Stone
In / memory of / Jane / daughter of / Stephen & Mariah / BAKER / who died / May 17, 1857 / in the 20 year / of her / age /
23. Broken stone
James A. / son of / James & Mary / BROWN / died / Nov. 30, 1844 / AE 20 y 2 m / 28 d’s /
24. Stone
William / son of / Wm & Sarah / OSTRANDER / died Sep. 26, 1845 / AE 15 y’rs 1 mo / & 28 d’s /
25. Top –
Hiram
Front, north – CUMMINS / died / Nov. 24, 1902 / in his 78th year / At rest /
26 Lamb
In memory of / Joseph W. / son of / Joseph & Hannah / SHARP / died / Jan. 20, 188? / aged / 3 yrs & 1 mo / ______gone little Joseph / _____child of our love / From earth’s fairy strand / To bright mansions above /
27. Broken stone
In / memory of / George W. / son of / George & Margaret ________
28. Stone
In / memory of / Robert / son of / Wm & Ann / SMITH / who died / June 23, 1852 / aged 28 yrs / 3 m & 11 d / Friends or physicians could not save / This mortal body from the grave / Nor can the grave confine it here / When Christ shall bid it to appear /
29. Red granite stone
In memory of / GarritOAKES/ who died / Apr. 6, 1881 / aged 90 / left side – Mary / wife of / the above / died / Nov. 21, 1848 / aged 54 /right side – Julia / wife of / the above / died / May 12, 1869 / aged 68
(Also given as Garrett OAKES – See Garrett Oakes; Tales of a Pioneer, Edited by George Thorman and Frank Clarke, Elgin Public Library)
30. Dove
In / memory of / Ebenezer F. / son of E. O. & V. / PHILLIPS / died / July 12, 1858 / AE 10 ms
31. Six foot stone in pulpit style
South – In memory of /DavidBRUSH / born / Aug, 1787 / died / March 1867 / Margaret BRUSH / born June 1792 / died Aug. 1847 / BRUSH /East – Hannah / BRUSH / wife of / S. KINSEY / born / June 1816 / died / Aug. 1867 /
North – blank; a footstone with “Father”
West – Emma / dau of / Nelson & Hulda / BRUSH / born / June 1852 / died / April 1868 /
32. Stone
In / memory of / Margaret E. / wife of George F. SUMMERS / died / Aug. 7, 1861 / AE 29 ys 5 ms / & 13 ds / The winter of trouble is past / The showers of afflictions are o’er / Her struggles are ended at last / And sorrow & death are no more /
33. Stone
In / memory of / James BROWN / died / Jan. 10, 1860 / aged / _____ / & 1 dy /The winter of trouble is passed / The storm of affliction is o’er / His struggles are ended at last / And sorrow and death are no more /
34. Broken stone; finger pointing up
Minnie / dau of / ____ & Hannah / SHARP / died / Jan. 13, 1882 / aged / 3 y’rs 2 mo’s & 19 d’s / A little flower of love / that blossomed but to die / Transplanted now above / to bloom with God on high /
35. Willow
In memory of / Sarah Ann / wife of / M. M. HUTCHINS / died / Apr. 13, 1848 / aged 36 yrs /
36. Willow
Ch’s G. WETHEREL / died / April 1, 1845 / aged 24 y’s 8 m’s / & 29 d’s /
37. Willow
In / memory of / Phebe Ann / daughter of / Aaron & Lucretia /WHITESELL/ & wife of E. Z. / who died / Aug. 12, 1850 / aged 25 y’rs / 3 m’s & 20 d’s / Look on me all who pass by / A tender mother once was I / Was once beloved as you now be / [rest broken off]
[Note: Phoebe was the wife of E. ZAVITZ– BCJ]
38. Stone
Anna / daughter of / Hozea & Rachel / BAKER / died Dec. 22, 1828 / AE 5 y’s 4 mo / & 2 d’s
39. Broken stone
Sleep on sweet babe and take thy rest / God call’d thee home when he though best
40. Stone
Left – In / memory of / Henry HOUSE / who died / Aug. 4, 1860 / aged / 63 y’rs 5 ms / & 2 days /
Right – In / memory of / Sarah BACON / wife of / Henry HOUSE / who died / Jan. 24, 1869 / aged 70 y’rs 2 ms / & 18 days / Weep not for us you friends so dear / We are not dead but sleeping here / We were not yours but God’s alone / He loved us best and called us home /
41. Broken stone
Sarah E. / died Apr. 22, 1864 / AE 23 ys 9 ms & 11 ds /
42. Stone #40 is leaning against this stone
Catharine / wife of Francis / CUTLER / died July 23, 1852 / AE 45 y’rs /
Footstones, markers, etc.
- R.D.
- S.A.H.
- M.R.
- G.B.D.
- Emma
- Blank
- J. W.
- P.M.S.
- W.O.
Appendix
Names from previous transcriptions:
Thaddeus OSTRANDER
William OSTRANDER, son of Wm. Ostrander, died Sept. 4, 1841 Ae 30 yrs
Rosa PETERS , dau of Peter PETERS & Elvira BRUSH, died Aug. 1, 1882, AE 8 yrs 3 mths
Martha ROBERTS, died Dec. 13, 1850, AE 67 yrs
Jake DEO
Jake WILCOX
March 10, 1817 Hosea BAKER married Rachel STILL of Charlotteville
Catharine CUTLER, wife of Francis CUTLER, is a daughter of Henry & Sarah HOUSE
Mary, wife of Garrit OAKES, was Mary LONG
Julia, wife of Garrit OAKES, was married once before to a Mr. PARROTT