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United Empire Loyalist Cemetery

Memorials	:	55
Location	:	Adolphustown, Lennox and Addington County, Canada
Coordinate	:	44.0608000, -77.0082600
Description	:	Fredericksburgh South Township, Concession 1 Old-Time Records by Thomas W. Casey ... An Old Adolphustown Burying Ground From "The Napanee Beaver" ... 16 August 1901 In the first settlement of the U.E. Loyalists in the old Township of Adolphustown every lot situated on the north side of Hay Bay, consisting of the fourth and fifth concessions, was at once assigned and nearly every one of them was at once occupied. It so happens that every one of these lots lies fronting the waters of either Hay Bay, or Bay Quinte, and that was a very important matter in the days when there were... Read More	Fredericksburgh South Township, Concession 1 Old-Time Records by Thomas W. Casey ... An Old Adolphustown Burying Ground From "The Napanee Beaver" ... 16 August 1901 In the first settlement of the U.E. Loyalists in the old Township of Adolphustown every lot situated on the north side of Hay Bay, consisting of the fourth and fifth concessions, was at once assigned and nearly every one of them was at once occupied. It so happens that every one of these lots lies fronting the waters of either Hay Bay, or Bay Quinte, and that was a very important matter in the days when there were no roads, wagons or horses, and the water was the one common highway. There was but one burying ground in that part of the township, and it alone has been used by the people of that locality from the time of the first settlement of the township to this day with a slight exception to two. It will probably continue to be the last resting place of many of the residents of that locality for generations to come. It happens, however, that the descendants of the first Loyalists who cleared away the wilderness there and transferred the then "wild lots" into very fruitful and productive farms have now nearly all left the township. It is somewhat singular that of all the well-known of the earliest and largest families all over the old township of Adolphustown, only a very few bearing the old family names now remain living there. The old residents of three score and three score and ten years are now surrounded by those whose names and families they knew nothing of in their early years. THE OLD BURYING GROUND A recent visit to the old burying ground in the Fourth concession of the township of Adolphustown, located on the small hill on the farm now occupied by James McMorine and Wm. H. Cadman, was of unusual interest to the writer. It recalled the memories of many faces and histories of those familiar many years ago, who were active and influential citizens in their day, but who are now silently resting until the resurrection day. Just how early that "God's acre" was established, and began to be used we know not, but it was probably soon after the first deaths began to occur among the earliest of the settlers. There seems at no time to have been any other common burying place established, and few of the dead among the settlers were taken elsewhere for burial. The interments of the first generation were nearly all made before there were headstones at all in use, and what red cedar posts and other articles may have been made use of to mark the respective graves are now all obliterated. The ground is now in a much better condition that most of our old country graveyards, having been recently well and substantially fenced, with a very substantial steel wire fence and red cedar posts. The most of the headstones that were ever put there - they are nearly all white marble slabs - are also in a fair state of preservation. Today, with a very small expenditure of time, labor and money, it can all be put in a good condition. Perhaps all it may now need is for some active person to take the initiative of starting a subscription for that purpose. THE BOGARTS It was partly on the well known Bogart homestead, in the fourth concession, that the burying ground is located, and its location there may have been because of the first interment of some members of that once very large and well known family. Members of five generations of that family have been interred there. The family were of Dutch origin, and may have been among the settlers of the New Netherlands - at Tapaan, on the Hudson river, before New York became an English colony. Gilbert (or Gyspert in Dutch), Bogart, the head of this family, came from New York with several of their children among the first refugees who left New York in 1785, in the vessels that passed around the Atlantic coast and up the St. Lawrence as far as Sorel, before the close of the season of that year. They located on lot 21, which was originally deeded by the government to Gilbert and his son Abraham, and on which they both lived and died and were buried. Gilbert died in 1829, in the 78th year of his age and his wife, Mariah Lent, in 1837 in her 95th year. Their son, Abraham Bogart, died in 1844, in his 82d year, and his wife, Maria Lazier, in 1874 in her 102d year. Their son, Lewis Lazier Bogart, died in 1888, in his 85th year, and his wife, Elizabeth Cronk, in 1890, in her 77th year. Cornelius V. Bogart, another son, died at Belleville in 1888, in his 80th year. It well be seen from these figures, and some that are to follow, that they all belonged in a family noted for their longevity. Members of five generations of that family have been buried in that now historic ground. Some of the bodies have since been moved to another plot, but still it pretty well deserved to be called, as it was once know, as "the Bogart burying ground." ABRAHAM'S BOGART'S DESCENDANTS In the old church records of St. Paul's Church, South Fredericksburgh - the first church of England built in the Midland district if not in the province - is Rev. John Langhorn's original certificate of the marriage of "Abraham Bogart, of Adolphustown, bachelor, and Mary Lazier, spinster, of Sophiasburgh." That occurred on March 18 1792, and the original certificate with their signatures attached thereto is now in the Bishop's office, Kingston. Mr. F. Richardson took an excellent photograph of it last year. They reared a large and somewhat remarkable family of ten children, nine of whom, were sons, "and there was not a drone or a black sheep among them" used to be remarked by the older people. They all lived to be elderly people, were married and had families of their own, except, Peter who was one of the victims of the great drowning, already referred to in his eighteenth year. The sons nearly all of whom became prominent and respected men attributed and very properly, no doubt, much of their success in life to their energetic mother, to whom they paid truly regal respect and homage when she became one hundred years old. She had the good judgement to introduce them all to learn some industrial trade, and nearly every branch of industry then available was represented among them. Among the trades taught to some of them were the blacksmith, cooper, tailor, hatter, carpenter, shoe maker, and we are not sure that exhausts the list. It is yet well known what extensive and quite wealthy business men some of them became, but the prudent foresight of the mother was for "something to fall back on, in case they fail" in other business speculations. For lack of available space now it will be necessary to defer to a future issue references to the families of the Coles, Bensons, Campbells, Huycks, Valleaus, Clarks, Hermances, Sobys and others whose names are marked on the various graves in this old ground that may also well deserve the title of another Adolphustown U.E.L. burying ground.

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