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Servos & Lincoln Cty I. Cem.'s

Abandoned Cemetery in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Nov 21 2017

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Recent status Abandoned
Location # 15071

Sitting close to shore at the edge of St Catharines, one can only imagine what this property looked like 200 years ago. William only acquired this 67 acres 4 years before he died in 1862. He paid $4000 for the 67 acres in 1858. He left the entire estate to his brothers daughter Mary Servos. William is surrounded by a Victorian era iron fence restored in 2005. .....................................I have added another very sad gallery of a pioneer cemetery with no headstones. This cemetery has been posted on another site in the wrong place but recently found it behind a Ford dealership with only broken fencing. It is located beside the Body Shop of Learn Ford , 375 Ontario Street in St. Catharines. This cemetery was the location of the Lincoln County Industrial Home where about 80 residents with very little money were buried here between 1887 and 1910. All who were buried here had no family or friends to claim their bodies.The graves were only marked with numbered stakes that have long since vanished or in the ground. The Regional Municipal of Niagara have looked after it since 1970, but need to fix the fence and make a plaque with names. I will post when I find their names again. There are so much incorrect info for this place but mine is correct. It took awhile but I am happy I have found their names. R.I.P.....................This Home closed when the Linhaven Home for Seniors opened up down Ontario street. Lincoln County Industrial Home residence buried @ 43.174368, -79.267173 GPS exactly ; [b]Bartlett, James,[/b] 18 Nov 1893
[b]Berger, Henry,[/b] 9 Mar 1899
[b]Booker, George E[/b], 21 Aug 1887
[b]Boughner, Cyrus,[/b] 27 Nov 1893
[b]Bowman, James,[/b] 30 Jun 1892
[b]Bowman, Peter,[/b] 6 Apr 1890
[b]Brewer, Mary,[/b] 12 Dec 1896
[b]Brock, Edward,[/b] 10 Aug 1887
[b]Brooks, William,[/b] 28 Aug 1905
[b]Brown, John,[/b] 20 Jan 1905
[b]Campbell, Erastus,[/b] 10 Jun 1901
[b]Carey, Edward,[/b] 25 May 1892
[b]Chantler, Betsy,[/b] 24 Jan 1908
[b]Clark, John,[/b] 18 Jul 1906
[b]Cowell, Mary F.,[/b] 21 Sep 1889
[b]Culp, Isaac,[/b] 26 Apr 1901
[b]Diamond, William,[/b] 9 Nov 1898
[b]Dixon, Edgar,[/b] 5 May 1896
[b]Dodohue, Mrs.,[/b] 12 Mar 1902
[b]Duffy, Christina,[/b] 23 Oct 1888
[b]Durham, Phoebe,[/b] 12 Apr 1902
[b]Enkel, Cosmos,[/b] 14 Jan 1897
[b]Finch, Alice,[/b] 16 Jan 1903
[b]Gilbert, Hannah,[/b] 14 Feb 1907
[b]Gillis, George[/b], 31 Oct 1907
[b]Griffin, Roy,[/b] 11 Sep 1890
[b]Groome, Mary,[/b] 3 Mar 1893
[b]Hamilton, Elizabeth,[/b] 24 Jun 1893
[b]Hennessy, James[/b], 2 Jul 1888
[b]Henry, Robert,[/b] 18 Apr 1895
[b]Horten, Joseph[/b], 10 Apr 1895
[b]Hoskins, Chester,[/b] 30 Jun 1890
[b]Howell, Elizabeth,[/b] 9 Aug 1892
[b]Howse, Isabella,[/b] 5 Jun 1892
[b]Hume, Peter,[/b] 8 Sep 1894
[b]Humphries, Edward,[/b] 29 May 1889
[b]Hutt, Mary,[/b] 2 Jan 1907
[b]Innis, Euphemia,[/b] 25 Mar 1907
[b]Knowler, John,[/b] 20 Dec 1899
[b]Lawson, John,[/b] 19 Nov 1900
[b]Lee, Charles,[/b] 11 May 1898
[b]Lewis, Alfred,[/b] 31 Jul 1910
[b]Mason, Celia,[/b] 27 Oct 1889
[b]Mawbey, John,[/b] 26 Aug 1887
[b]McBride, John,[/b] 21 Apr 1900
[b]McKinzie, Agnes,[/b] 8 May 1889
[b]Mellon, Margaret,[/b] 11 Feb 1887
[b]Miller, John P.,[/b] 27 Mar 1909
[b]Mills, John,[/b] 17 Jun 1900
[b]Mitchell, Abram,[/b] 10 Nov 1905
[b]Moore, Rose,[/b] 8 Feb 1909
[b]Moran, Patrick,[/b] 20 Oct 1891
[b]Page, Charles,[/b] 31 Oct 1894
[b]Parker, Jane[/b], 12 Apr 1891
[b]Pearse, Joseph,[/b] 28 Sep 1889
[b]Pott, Emma,[/b] 6 Feb 1906
[b]Pulver, Barbara,[/b] 9 Nov 1908
[b]Ransbury, John,[/b] 23 Sep 1896
[b]Rozenwig, Theobald,[/b] 17 Apr 1900
[b]Ryall, Jacob,[/b] 8 Sep 1891
[b]Secord, Polly,[/b] 22 Nov 1888
[b]Servos, Mary,[/b] 11 Mar 1891
[b]Shadwick, Rachel,[/b] 17 Apr 1901
[b]Small, John,[/b] 11 Dec 1889
[b]Smith, Conrad,[/b] 6 Jan 1894
[b]Smith, James,[/b] 2 Aug 1899'
[b]Sosler, Theodore,[/b] 17 Sep 1901
[b]Stockford, Jane,[/b] 19 Jul 1899
[b]Terryberry, Samuel,[/b] 15 Jul 1901
[b]Terryberry, Stephen,[/b] 18 Oct 1896
[b]Thompson, Lucy,[/b] 22 Nov 1889
[b]Tipp, Charles,[/b] 16 Jan 1890
[b]Tobin, Martin,[/b] 13 Feb 1902
[b]Vaughn, Hannah,[/b] 24 Jun 1895
[b]Vaughn, Jacob,[/b] 26 Sep 1897
[b]Vondushure, Henry,[/b] 16 Mar 1897
[b]Waite, William,[/b] 3 Feb 1908
[b]Wilson, Henry[/b], 3 Mar 1896
[b]Yeo, Hannah,[/b] 29 Sep 1901

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6 years ago

Wicked history here and good find on that grave. I find the industrial homes and their graveyards to be interesting in how much they still seem to be ignored as part of our history. Frankly I can't believe you got names! There's one near my house that's marked with a simple monument "nearby" the original cemetery. I don't think any names were ever transcribed, if there was ever even grave markers to begin with.

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6 years ago

Thanks Timo, and I will follow up with R.M. of Niagara and Ford to see what we can do here. My family alone paid $8000 for a Cairn in Mb. so it shouldn't be a problem.

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6 years ago

Excellent work on searching out the names of those buried here, too bad it has been left in such poor condition. The industrial home were a sad story in Ontario's history.