Bestville Cemetery
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Bestville Cemetery

Hazlet, Swift Current Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada

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    Coordinates: 50.45591, -108.75354
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The community of Bestville took its name from the first post office in the area, which was started about 1910 at the home of Orville Best on SE-14-17-21 W3. The area had recently been opened to homesteaders and the quarters were filling up with dryland farmers from other parts of Canada and the world. Several one room schools (Happy Valley, Idaho and Roia Dene) were formed in the years 1912-14 and a community hall built ca 1917. Bestville Cemetery traces its origins to 20 January 1912, when 17-year old Everett Vestal was buried in the corner of his parent's homestead. George S and Stella Vestal then donated a few acres of land around their son's grave for the Bestville Cemetery. Local volunteers raised funds in the 1950's to have small stone markers made for the unmarked graves. In the fall of 2013, all headstones were photographed and added to Find a Grave. Identification of some headstones was aided by a cemetery map in the local history book, "Hazlet & Its Heritage" (published 1987 by the Hazlet Historical Society; the map is on page 230). The Bestville Cemetery is still in active use.
The community of Bestville took its name from the first post office in the area, which was started about 1910 at the home of Orville Best on SE-14-17-21 W3. The area had recently been opened to homesteaders and the quarters were filling up with dryland farmers from other parts of Canada and the world. Several one room schools (Happy Valley, Idaho and Roia Dene) were formed in the years 1912-14 and a community hall built ca 1917. Bestville Cemetery traces its origins to 20 January 1912, when 17-year old Everett Vestal was buried in the corner of his parent's homestead. George S and Stella Vestal then donated a few acres of land around their son's grave for the Bestville Cemetery. Local volunteers raised funds in the 1950's to have small stone markers made for the unmarked graves. In the fall of 2013, all headstones were photographed and added to Find a Grave. Identification of some headstones was aided by a cemetery map in the local history book, "Hazlet & Its Heritage" (published 1987 by the Hazlet Historical Society; the map is on page 230). The Bestville Cemetery is still in active use.

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  • Added: 14 Mar 2013
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2488440