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Covert Cemetery

Memorials	:	22
Location	:	Port Wade, Annapolis County, Canada
Coordinate	:	44.6805600, -65.7062600
Description	:	This small cemetery was first surveyed in 1998 by local cemetery researcher, Denise J. Rice. At the time, she found the cemetery to be very overgrown with many damaged headstones. Local residents in the area told her that this cemetery was located on land first owned by a Covert family and that the cemetery was known as "Covert Cemetery." Twenty-three years later, on March 31, 2021, another avid cemetery investigator, Steve Skafte, learned of this cemetery. He, too, found that most of the stones were damaged and down and covered with dirt. So, he set to work clearing overgrowth, a task... Read More	This small cemetery was first surveyed in 1998 by local cemetery researcher, Denise J. Rice. At the time, she found the cemetery to be very overgrown with many damaged headstones. Local residents in the area told her that this cemetery was located on land first owned by a Covert family and that the cemetery was known as "Covert Cemetery." Twenty-three years later, on March 31, 2021, another avid cemetery investigator, Steve Skafte, learned of this cemetery. He, too, found that most of the stones were damaged and down and covered with dirt. So, he set to work clearing overgrowth, a task that will require more visits to complete. He was able to recover a number of stones that lay covered in dirt and debris, stones not previously surveyed. Despite all that he found, he knows that there are more waiting to see the light of day once again, which he hopes to achieve on future visits. This is a private, unsigned cemetery. With such cemeteries a decision must be made as to the name of the cemetery. Sometimes the name is based on information from local residents, sometimes on the oldest headstone, sometimes on the surname most prevalent in the cemetery. When Steve began to clear the cemetery of overgrowth and recover fallen and buried stones, he discovered that "Anthony" was by far the surname most represented, as well as an Anthony stone being the oldest surviving stone. Therefore, it seemed that "Anthony Cemetery" was more appropriate than "Covert Cemetery." Concurring, Christopher Bent created the cemetery on Find a Grave and initially named it "Anthony Cemetery" with "Covert Cemetery" included in the AKA list. However, as it turns out, the locals were correct all along. Christopher Bent set about researching deeds in an attempt to verify if the cemetery was ever on land owned by a Covert family. The short answer is: yes, it was. One John Covert immigrated to the area around 1783/84. Between May 1784 and Sept 1799, John purchased four lots of 50 acres each. Each lot was 8 rods wide and ran from the Annapolis Basin in the south to the Bay of Fundy to the north. One of these lots includes the property on which the Covert Cemetery is located. That property passed to John's son, Edward, and then to Edward's son, John Roop Covert, who sold the property in 1895 to his daughter, Mrs. Ella Grace Johns. The deed, in describing the boundaries of the property, includes "reserving the family burial grounds". This information makes clear that this was a private burial ground for the Covert family situated on Covert land for more than one hundred years. DIRECTIONS: The cemetery is located immediately off the road on the north side of Granville Road, on the hilltop west of the driveway to Civic #1715. The path to enter is located behind the mailboxes. Park across the road at the entrance to Mariner's Section Burial Ground.

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Latitude: 44.6805600
Longitude: -65.7062600

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