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i Q Q County of Brant HERITAGE CEMETERY Driving Tour Q Q i War of 1812 Veterans interred in County of Brant Cemeteries All Saints Cemetery Glen Morris Cemetery Mount Pleasant Thomas R. Cumming Thomas Atkinson Frederick Yeoward Holy Trinity Cemetery John R. Bradt Baptist Cemetery / William Brown St. Abner Cemetery Charles S. Perley Nathaniel Landon Jacob Smith Baptist Church Cemetery Johnson Cemetery John Fonger (Private Property) Benjamin File Brant Cemetery John W. Clark Lymburner Cemetery Henry A. Cornwell Robert Lymburner Malachi File William Lymburner John Oles Benjamin Strowbridge Mount Pleasant Cemetery Stephen Burtch Burford Congregational Joseph Chatterson Cemetery John Cook Thomas Fowler Allin Ellis Henry Lester Henery Ellis John Ward John Ellis Jacob Yeigh Robert P. McAlister Burford Pioneer Cemetery John W. McIntyre William D. Bowen Thomas Perrin Sr. Lewis Burwell Solomon Phelps Jonathan Stephens Daniel Secord Sr. John McKenzie Sturgis Clump Cemetery William Sturgis Ebenezer Willson William Thompson Morris Thomas Fairfield Plains United Cemetery John Clements Daniel A. Freeland i War of 1812 Grave Markers isitors may notice that in some of the cemeteries in the County Vof Brant, there are black granite markers mounted in white metal stands dotted throughout the cemetery. These markers were placed at the graves of veterans who fought in the War of 1812 between the United States, Great Britain and their Indigenous allies. The granite markers were supplied through a program called “The War of 1812 Graveside Project” to mark the 200th anniversary of the war. 86 veterans from the War of 1812 are interred in County of Brant cemeteries. They were recognized with a plaque, placed during a ceremony, in which their graves were blessed and reenactors fired muskets in a three volley salute. County of Brant 1 Cemetery Tour War of 1812 Veterans interred in County of Brant Cemeteries Mount Vernon Cemetery Robert Biggar Cemetery Stephen Duckworth (Private Property) Joseph Dutton Robert Biggar Stephen Landon Thomas Perrin Scotland Cemetery Duncan Malcolm Northfield Cemetery James Malcolm John Hainer Ashman Moore Oakland Cemetery John Moore John Beacham William White Hugh Malcolm Second Onondaga Baptist Peter McIntyre Church Cemetery Asa Secord John Cowie Oakland Pioneer Cemetery St. George Baptist Josiah Brown Cemetery Charles Eddy John Buckberry Henry Gates Sampson Howell David Lefler Henry Kitchen John Malcolm William Rosebrugh Finley Malcolm Sr. Andrew Van Every James Markle Haggai Westbrook St. George United Church John Winegarden Cemetery Mathias Woodley James Bennet Old Paris Cemetery Jonah Howell John Chambers John Purvis Lawrason Miller Lawrason Paris Plains Church Cemetery Thomas Rosebrugh Abraham Markle Solomon Markle Westbrook Cemetery Christian Muma John Westbrook Pioneer Presbyterian Cemetery Isaac Howell William Ronald John Smith i For more information on the War of 1812 Veterans: www.gravesideproject.ca County of Brant 2 Cemetery Tour M contents War of 1812 - Interred and Grave Markers...................................1 A brief History of the County of Brant.........................................5 TOUR ONE - Paris....................................................................6 Epidemics............................................................................6 St James Church...................................................................7 Old Paris Cemetery...............................................................8 Paris Cemetery.....................................................................9 Sacred Heart Cemetery and The Disciple Christian Cemetery...........................................10 TOUR TWO - Burford / Mount Vernon..............................11 - 12 Burford Pioneer Cemetery...................................................12 Congregational Cemetery ...................................................13 Holy Trinity Church and Cemetery.........................................14 Mount Vernon Cemetery......................................................16 Baptist Cemetery / St. Abner Cemetery................................16 TOUR THREE - Burford Township............................................17 Cathcart Cemetery..............................................................17 White Cemetery..................................................................18 Hatchley Cemetery..............................................................18 Lymburner Cemetery...........................................................19 Kelvin United Cemetery.......................................................20 Early Kelvin / Carter Cemetery............................................ 20 Hill Free Methodist Cemetery ..............................................21 Northfield Cemetery and Harley Cemetery.............................21 i County of Brant HERITAGE CEMETERY Driving Tour County of Brant 3 Cemetery Tour contents M contents TOUR FOUR - South Burford Township, Mount Pleasant,Oakland...22 The Dutcher Cemetery.............................................................22 Fairfield Plains United Church and Cemetery.............................23 Scotland Cemetery...................................................................24 Oakland Pioneer Cemetery.......................................................25 Oakland Cemetery....................................................................26 Fairchild Cemetery...................................................................27 Mount Pleasant Cemetery........................................................27 All Saints Anglican Church and Cemetery..................................28 TOUR FIVE - Onondaga, East Brantford Township.........................29 Brant Cemetery/ St. Mary’s Cemetery........................................30 Salt Springs Church and Cemetery............................................30 Pleasant Hill Cemetery............................................................31 St. Paul’s Anglican Church and Cemetery..................................32 Second Onondaga Baptist Church Cemetery..............................33 TOUR SIX - South Dumfries.........................................................34 Paris Plains Church and Cemetery............................................35 Glen Morris United Church and Cemetery..................................36 Pioneer Presbyterian Cemetery................................................37 St. George United Church Cemetery..........................................37 St. George Baptist Cemetery....................................................38 Harrisburg United Church and Cemetery...................................39 Baptist Church Cemetery................................................ 40 Clump Cemetery.............................................................41 Please respect the solitude of your surroundings. Walk on common spaces and leave nothing but footprints. ThankYou County of Brant 4 Cemetery Tour A brief history of the County of Brant i he County of Brant is located at the mid-point of the Grand River as it flows south from Luther Marsh to Lake Erie. The Grand River is one of T eleven designated heritage rivers in Ontario. In Brant, the river flows through an area of rich farmland and Carolinian forest. It was this combination of the river for water power and transportation and land for farming that made the area so attractive to the Indigenous peoples and European settlers. European settlers first arrived in Burford Township in 1793, and began to settle in the rest of the Coun- ty soon after. Brant, like the City of Brantford, is named after Joseph Brant, who led his people of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Six Nations are a confederacy of Indigenous people who originally lived in what is now upstate New York and also had Treaties for the lands they conquered from the Hurons lying between the Great Lakes, known as Six Nations 1701 Beaver Hunting Grounds. The Six Nations are made up of Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca and Tuscarora. In 1784 they were granted land, six miles wide on each side of the Grand River, from mouth to source, in recognition of their loyalty to the British Crown after the American Revolution. In the 1840’s, Six Nations people were moved to settle on their present day reservation at the south end of the County around Ohsweken. Brant was part of the United Counties of Wentworth, Halton and Brant until 1852. In that year, the City of Brantford, the Village of Paris, and the Townships of Brantford, Oakland, On- ondaga, South Dumfries and Burford became Brant County. The City of Brantford left the County to become a separate city in 1877. This political structure continued in place for the next 122 years until January 1st, 1999, when Brant County and its six constituent municipalities restructured to become the single-tier Municipality, the County of Brant. County of Brant 5 Cemetery Tour tour one paris 1 St. James Anglican Church Cemetery 1 Portland St. 2 Old Paris Cemetery – 45 Church St. 3 Paris Cemetery – 116 King Edward St. 4 Sacred Heart Cemetery – 71 Cedar St. 5 The Disciple Christian Cemetery 687677 Governor’s Rd. W., Falkland TOWN OF PARIS In 1823, a travelling sales- agreed to pay Holme $10,000.00 man from Vermont, United States for the land, buildings and gypsum named Hiram Capron happened mining rights. Capron moved his upon a beautiful valley where two family from Vermont and began rivers met. Capron later told his clearing more land. son that, before dismounting his In 1830, Capron hired surveyor horse, he had