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ufcScS'llUrCP T Gf (9 CEMETERY ufcScS(9MPCTGJ (9~ eft. 1860 ESSEX COUNTY BRANCH ONTARIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY . 1987 VILLAINE WILLIAMS Rose 11 Betty 30 VINCENT Cecil 17+30 Anna J. 30 Grace 30 VIRTUE Mary P. 44 Donald J. 49 WILSON Jeanette 49 Herbert Edward 20 lifALKER Julia 39 Anna 54 WINTER Arthur 47 Charlotte 38 Elizabeth 9 Joseph 38 Eulalie 47 WOLFORD Ida 47 Jennie 34 John 9 Newton 34 Leo G. 54 WOOD Malvina 4 Richard S. (Rev.) 30 Noah 4 Rose Marie 47 Telesphore 54 YOUNGSON WALSH Matilda (TILLEY) 9 Alphonsus 51 ZELE Arthur F. 56 Eugenie (GIRARDOT) 21 Francis A. (Rev.) 30 ZILKA Helen (BOURKE) 4 Norma H. 50 Joseph B. (Rev.) 30 Paul 44 William 45 WARE Nellie (READ) 52 ? ETTO WATKINS --William 11 Sarah (BISSONETTE) 8 WATSON Cecile 33 Erinestine M.(GIRARDOT) 22 William 33 WEBB L. Wanda 61 WEBER Noreen C. 55 WELCH Catherine 41 WHALEN Harriet A. 52 .James H. (Rev.) 29 WHITE Corrine 21 Delima (MOORE) 56 Blanche 2 WILBUR Gerard H. (Rev.) 29 WIGLE Wm. H. 18 WILDS A. 53 C. 53 29. ADDENDUlYl In the fall of 1987, Robert and lYlary Grundy of Windsor, Ontario asked the Branch for advice in arranging for a gravestone for lYlrs. Grundy's young brother, Joseph Power. He had been buried in Assump tion Cemetery in 1926 but a marker had never been placed on his grave. Arrangements were made with Excelsior lYlonuments Ltd., Tecum seh, Onto for the stone. Father Lajeunesse found a place for it in the "children's section"- Section C, near the stones of Paul Hucker and lYlarilyn Schaefer. ADDB'NDUlYl (October 1989) Raymond Rlil:NAUD, husband of Elmire lVlARTINE and father of Rita PITRE, died Aug. 8, 1922, age 33 years. The funeral mass was celebrated at Sacred ~eart Church?LaSall~, Onto and burial took place at Assumptlon Cemetery ln lYlaurlce RENAUDus plot (brother of the deceased). The gravestones are now gone. Thanks to Denis and Rita Pitre. 30. CORRE::CTIONS (October, 1989) - Thanks to Sally 0 oRourke TRANSCRIPTIONS: : Page 53 Row 12 #2 COUVILLON should be COUVILLION~~ " 60 .. 8 #2 DURANO " " DURAND~~ INDEX: Page 5 CARROTHE'RS, Louis eM. should be CARRUTHERS~~ " 5 CARROT:H:ERS, Wm. Earl " " CARRUT:H:ERS~~ " 5 CE'C ILB', E:mily (OUJEl'LLE'TTE:') " " Emilie " 6 COUVILLON, J.B. " " COUVB'LLON~~ " 6 COUVILLON, Margaret " " COUVILLION~~ " 8 DUFOUR, D. Arthur should be deleted " 8 " Edward J. " " " "8 " Lillian pg. 9) should be added "8 " Mary J. (pgo 56) " " " "8 " N. (pg. 32) " " " "8 " Noe (pgo 32) " " " "8 " Remi J. (pg. 10) " " " "8 " William (pg. 9 ) " " " " 8 DUFRES:NE, D. Arthur (pg. 25) " " " " 8 " Lillian should be deleted " 8 " Mary J. " " " " 8 " Noe " " " " 8 " Hemi J. " " " " 8 " William " " " " 9 DUPONT, George (pg. 43) should be added " 9 DURAND, Melanie should be DURAUD~~ "13 HOLTZ, Joan " " HOTZ~~ " 18 IVIA U, Ray (pg. 22) should be added "20 MORANCY., Gaspard (pg. 51) " " " "20 MO]El'LEY, Arthur J. (Rev.) shouldlbe MORLEY~~ " 20 NANTAIS, Eugene " " Eugenie " 21 OUELLETTE, Emily (CECILE) " " Emilie " 26 RUTA, Ruth should be deleted " 26 RUTA, Francis S. (Rev.) should be RUTH~~ * Rechecked at cemetery Please note that some names in the index are out of proper alphabetical order. -31- ASSUMPTION CEMETERY LOCATION: In the Province of Ontario, County of Essex, City of Windsor, at Wyandotte Street West and Huron Church Roado DATE ESTABLISHED: circa 1860 RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION: Roman Catholic ORIGINAL LAND GRANT BY: Huron Indians to Jesuit Missionaries in 1747. Church lands later described as 350 acres in Lot No. 63 in the First,Second, and Third Concessions of the Township of Sandwicho ACTIVITY: All plots sold, burials still being conductedo TRANSCRIBED: In1982, by students through a Summer Canada Project sponsored by the Essex County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. VERIFIED: In 1986,by Colleen Ouellette, Carole Hutchinson, Marie Cournoyea, Yvonne Gibbs, Barbara McLachlan, Shirley Antaya and Olva Geeo FIRST TYPED BY: Olva Gee SECOND TYPED BY: Yvonne Dionne INDEXED BY: Olva Gee PROOF-READ BY: Shirley Antaya and Sally O'Rourke MAP BY: Olva Gee FRONT COVER BY: Doreen Snelling PERMISSION TO TRANSCRIBE & PUBLISH BY: Revo Msgr. F.J. Laverty, P.H., Chancellor of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Londono PUBLICATION DATE: January 1988 All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior permission of the publisher, The Essex County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, Box 2, Station A, Windsor, Ontario, N9A 6J5o NOTE: ADDENDUM follows Index. -i- HISTORY Assumption Church had its beginning in 1728 at Detroit as the Mission of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, established for the Huron Indians by the Jesuit Missionary Father Armand de LaRichardieo In 1742, the mission was transferred to Bois Blanc Island (Bob-Lo), soon after which Father Pierre Potier arrived to oversee it. Several years later, the mission was destroyed by rebel Indians 0 In 1749, the Huron Mission was established on this side of the river at La Pointe de Montreal, near where the Ambassador Bridge stands today, on lands donated by the Huron Indianso The Parish of Assump tion, serving both the Hurons and the French settlers, came into being in 1767 with Father Potier as first pastoro A new church was erected near the river where Patricia Rdo is nowo The first known cemetery of the parish was located next to the church. This is shown in a small map of the Village of L'Assomption 1781, in the Historical Atlas of Canada, Volume 1, Plate 530 The Huron village was situated in the vicinity of the present Villa Maria Home for the Aged, under the Ambassador Bridge at the north~ west corner of Huron Church Rdo and Riverside Dro Westo The Indian cemetery was at the back of the village, near a creek which no long er exists. In 1787, the third church was built by Father J.F. Huberto It was situated south of the old church at about the centre of the boulevard called Vista Place, just east of Assumption Park in front of the pre sent church. (Note:: This park, between University Ave. and Riverside Dr. is generally associated with Ambassador Park which runs along the riverfront. In Assumption Park stands a monument in memory of the "Men of Sandwich"who served in the First World Waro) At the side of the church was erected a chapel of the dead, where the bodies of de ceased persons brought from a distance were placed until burial. This chapel stood at the entrance of the new cemetery which had been moved to where Electa Hall, a residence of the University of Windsor, stands today on the northwest corner of Patricia Rdo and University Ave. The third cemetery was opened about 1812 where Assumption Park is now. It was described as being "partly in front of the church on the southwest sideo" To the south of this cemetery, the fourth and pre sent church was built in 1845. In 1850, the remains of Fathers Pierre Potier, Francois Xavier Dufaux, and Jean Baptist Marchand, and of Sister Clotilde Raizenne were transferred to beneath the churcho In about 1859 or 1860, Bishop Pinsonneault had the cemetery moved to its present site. Some of the interred remains and gravestones were transferred from the former cemeteryo One whose remains were known to be moved was that of Madame Archange StoMartin McIntosh, who died in 1827. (page 6). The remains of the Honorable James S. Baby, 1763-1833, were transferred here from Toronto, Onto, where he had been buriedo Many of the stones have disintegrated, and the old est one remaining, but which is not completely legible, is that of James Razoe, who died in 179(5). Of further interest is the Basilian plot (pages 28-30), with its 48 cross-shaped monumentso The Basilian Fathers had come to the parish in 18700 -ii- The present cemetery is located on the southeast corner of the intersection at Wyandotte Sto West and Huron Church Rd. Its fenced northern and western borders adjoin those streets 0 The Ambassador Bridge curves around the eastern and southern boundaries, lifting over Huron Church Rd., and continues northward to span the Detroit River. With the constant heavy traffic, and particularly the noise of the transport trucks gearing up on the bridge, it is difficult to imagine how those interred in the cemetery can rest in peacel Across Wyandotte Sto to the north lies the University of Windsor campus 0 Assumption Church stands on the southeast corner of Univer sity Aveo and Huron Church Rd. It is known to be the oldest parish of Ontario. Information for this history was obtained from several sources: The Windsor Border Region by Revo Ernest Lajeunesse, C.S.B.; The Township of Sandwich, Past and Present, by Frederick Neal; Assump tion Cemetery and Burial Records Up To 1900, by Carol Slavik and Christine Soterosforthe Windsor Public Library;and a historical brochure about Assumption Church by Elio DelColo We are especially grateful to Father Lajeunesse for providing us with additional in formationo Considerable effort has been made to present the inscriptions as depicted on the gravestones, and to avoid errors of any kind" However, due to the deterioration of many of the older stones, difficulties were encountered in deciphering themo Please note that errors were sometimes made by the engravers or by the persons supplying the information to the" engravers 0 Unusual spellings of names may be foundo Also, there can be more than one spelling of a surname on stones in a family plot, or even on the same stoneo Stones contained within a family plot may not be in the same row as the main stone, and are often found in adjacent rows.