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St. Mary's Anglican Cemetery

Memorials	:	10
Location	:	Barton, Digby County, Canada
Coordinate	:	44.5366200, -65.8733220
Description	:	The church, like so many others in Nova Scotia, no longer stands. The two empty lots at the intersection of Hwy 101 and North Range Cross Road hold their histories close. The only tangible evidence that remains is the presence of four headstones in the woods, but they also reveal little about the past of this place. Around the turn of the millennium, cemetery investigator Denise J Rice visited this little cemetery but came away without discovering much about the history of the people buried here. Fast forward to late July 2021 and Steve Skafte, another dedicated cemetery hunter, was told... Read More	The church, like so many others in Nova Scotia, no longer stands. The two empty lots at the intersection of Hwy 101 and North Range Cross Road hold their histories close. The only tangible evidence that remains is the presence of four headstones in the woods, but they also reveal little about the past of this place. Around the turn of the millennium, cemetery investigator Denise J Rice visited this little cemetery but came away without discovering much about the history of the people buried here. Fast forward to late July 2021 and Steve Skafte, another dedicated cemetery hunter, was told about a headstone someone had seen in the snow the previous winter as he was driving by. Steve, of course, paid it a visit the first chance he got and photographed the headstones, which have been uploaded here at Find a Grave. But, like Denise, he came away with many more questions than answers about this little cemetery and its occupants, so he called upon Christopher Bent to do some investigative research. John Hewitt was the first owner of the land on which the cemetery is located. He obtained the 200 acres in a land grant from the government when the area was first being settled by Loyalists. Lot 42. In December 1808, John and his wife, Eleanor, sold the eastern half of Lot 42 to Noah Brown and resided on the western half. A decade later, on 30 March 1820, they sold the western half of Lot 42 to John McNeil, Barton's first merchant. The western boundary of this half of Lot 42 ran along the road known today as North Range Cross Road. It was on this western half of Lot 42, sometime between 1820 and 1825, that the first Anglican Church was built "on the east side of Hewitt's Corner" (an early name for the intersection of the main highway with the cross road). This information is found in the "Geography and History of Digby County" which elsewhere in the book also mentions an "Episcopal Church, just east of Lambertson's Corner, Barton, March 24, 1859". It would appear that once John Hewitt departed the area, the intersection took on the name of the landowner on the opposite side of North Range Cross Road, a Mr. Lambertson. Sometime after 1859, Mr. Lambertson seems to have donated a portion of his property for the purpose of building a new church. This took place before 1871 because the A. F. Church map shows an Episcopal church on the west side of North Range Cross Road, with J. Lambertson immediately to the west of the church property. This is the church which would be called St. Mary's Anglican Church and the same name has been chosen for the small cemetery. All of the people buried here were Anglican. As will be seen in the narratives for them, the surnames of Bond, Fream and Playle were not common in the area. They arrived "from away" and, for the most part, had disappeared within a generation or two. DIRECTIONS – Located in the wooded area directly southeast of the intersection of Highway 101 and North Range Cross Road.

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Latitude: 44.5366200
Longitude: -65.8733220

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