Wheeler Cemetery
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Wheeler Cemetery

Clarenceville, Monteregie Region, Quebec, Canada – *No GPS coordinates

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Elizabeth (Sheldon) wife of Timothy Wheeler requested that a family cemetery be established on their farm located on Lake Shore Drive, Saint Georges de Clarenceville. The place she selected to be laid at rest was on a side hill which was covered by a large orchid, amid flowers planted by her own hands. This became the Wheeler family burying ground where Timothy, his wife Elizabeth, second wife Nancy Dodge,and their infant children were buried.

This cemetery is no longer in existence. In about 1941 the hill was bulldozed according to Eric Wheeler of Venice En Quebec who was a child at the time. Eric said that the tombstones were thrown on the fence line, the wooden caskets were decayed by this time. I questioned the town clerk of Clarenceville, she said that the farmers are always ploughing up human bones in the fields.

Today, where once stood Elizabeth's hillside planted with flowers,are acres of flat corn fields. The remains of her body are scattered among the rows of corn, how sad.

Clarenceville originally was called Seigniory of Foucault during the French regime. Later it was called Caldwells' Manor and then Allard's Manor. Then the area was divided into the Parish of Saint Thomas and Parish of Saint George.

Reference: Reminiscences of the Wheeler's by Dr. Philander A. Wheeler.









Elizabeth (Sheldon) wife of Timothy Wheeler requested that a family cemetery be established on their farm located on Lake Shore Drive, Saint Georges de Clarenceville. The place she selected to be laid at rest was on a side hill which was covered by a large orchid, amid flowers planted by her own hands. This became the Wheeler family burying ground where Timothy, his wife Elizabeth, second wife Nancy Dodge,and their infant children were buried.

This cemetery is no longer in existence. In about 1941 the hill was bulldozed according to Eric Wheeler of Venice En Quebec who was a child at the time. Eric said that the tombstones were thrown on the fence line, the wooden caskets were decayed by this time. I questioned the town clerk of Clarenceville, she said that the farmers are always ploughing up human bones in the fields.

Today, where once stood Elizabeth's hillside planted with flowers,are acres of flat corn fields. The remains of her body are scattered among the rows of corn, how sad.

Clarenceville originally was called Seigniory of Foucault during the French regime. Later it was called Caldwells' Manor and then Allard's Manor. Then the area was divided into the Parish of Saint Thomas and Parish of Saint George.

Reference: Reminiscences of the Wheeler's by Dr. Philander A. Wheeler.









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