A native of Newfoundland, William Best died aged 25 years at Lennoxville, Eastern Townships, Quebec, leaving in Quebec City his 19-year-old widow, Elizabeth {Burden} Best, and a son, William Best junior
NOTE:
Malvern Cemetery was not opened until 1871. Until that year, Saint James's Cemetery, a non-denominational burial ground situated at Lot 216 in the town of Lennoxville, between what were once Maple and Glendale Streets, was where all Protestant interments took place, including Anglican, Methodist, Congregationalist, Universalist and so on. Saint James Cemetery received its first recorded burial in 1823, and was active up until Malvern was established nearly 50 years later
Over the years after St James' fell out of use, some of the gravestones were removed to Malvern, and eventually the old cemetery became overgrown by brush and trees. Some of the remaining gravemarkers simply disappeared, turning up decades later at various places throughout town, serving as doorsteps and walks. In 1965 the St James Cemetery land was subdivided and the eight lots sold to owners of the adjoining properties, including the nearby Saint George's Church
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a study was done by a few interested individuals, to try and ascertain the names and markers of those who probably had first been buried in St James's Cemetery. About 130 St James' interments were identified as then (1995) being present in the Malvern grounds. The compiled list can be viewed as a PDF file, here:
"Some Burials in St James Cemetery"
NOTE:
Malvern Cemetery was not opened until 1871. Until that year, Saint James's Cemetery, a non-denominational burial ground situated at Lot 216 in the town of Lennoxville, between what were once Maple and Glendale Streets, was where all Protestant interments took place, including Anglican, Methodist, Congregationalist, Universalist and so on. Saint James Cemetery received its first recorded burial in 1823, and was active up until Malvern was established nearly 50 years later
Over the years after St James' fell out of use, some of the gravestones were removed to Malvern, and eventually the old cemetery became overgrown by brush and trees. Some of the remaining gravemarkers simply disappeared, turning up decades later at various places throughout town, serving as doorsteps and walks. In 1965 the St James Cemetery land was subdivided and the eight lots sold to owners of the adjoining properties, including the nearby Saint George's Church
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a study was done by a few interested individuals, to try and ascertain the names and markers of those who probably had first been buried in St James's Cemetery. About 130 St James' interments were identified as then (1995) being present in the Malvern grounds. The compiled list can be viewed as a PDF file, here:
"Some Burials in St James Cemetery"
A native of Newfoundland, William Best died aged 25 years at Lennoxville, Eastern Townships, Quebec, leaving in Quebec City his 19-year-old widow, Elizabeth {Burden} Best, and a son, William Best junior
NOTE:
Malvern Cemetery was not opened until 1871. Until that year, Saint James's Cemetery, a non-denominational burial ground situated at Lot 216 in the town of Lennoxville, between what were once Maple and Glendale Streets, was where all Protestant interments took place, including Anglican, Methodist, Congregationalist, Universalist and so on. Saint James Cemetery received its first recorded burial in 1823, and was active up until Malvern was established nearly 50 years later
Over the years after St James' fell out of use, some of the gravestones were removed to Malvern, and eventually the old cemetery became overgrown by brush and trees. Some of the remaining gravemarkers simply disappeared, turning up decades later at various places throughout town, serving as doorsteps and walks. In 1965 the St James Cemetery land was subdivided and the eight lots sold to owners of the adjoining properties, including the nearby Saint George's Church
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a study was done by a few interested individuals, to try and ascertain the names and markers of those who probably had first been buried in St James's Cemetery. About 130 St James' interments were identified as then (1995) being present in the Malvern grounds. The compiled list can be viewed as a PDF file, here:
"Some Burials in St James Cemetery"
NOTE:
Malvern Cemetery was not opened until 1871. Until that year, Saint James's Cemetery, a non-denominational burial ground situated at Lot 216 in the town of Lennoxville, between what were once Maple and Glendale Streets, was where all Protestant interments took place, including Anglican, Methodist, Congregationalist, Universalist and so on. Saint James Cemetery received its first recorded burial in 1823, and was active up until Malvern was established nearly 50 years later
Over the years after St James' fell out of use, some of the gravestones were removed to Malvern, and eventually the old cemetery became overgrown by brush and trees. Some of the remaining gravemarkers simply disappeared, turning up decades later at various places throughout town, serving as doorsteps and walks. In 1965 the St James Cemetery land was subdivided and the eight lots sold to owners of the adjoining properties, including the nearby Saint George's Church
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a study was done by a few interested individuals, to try and ascertain the names and markers of those who probably had first been buried in St James's Cemetery. About 130 St James' interments were identified as then (1995) being present in the Malvern grounds. The compiled list can be viewed as a PDF file, here:
"Some Burials in St James Cemetery"
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