The first Cemetery was laid out on the west end of the south half of 23. After one interment the site was abandoned. The next site was chosen on the SW corner of Stephen Thompson's place and after two interments that also was abandoned.

In 1894, the present site was chosen: the NW corner of Section 13, one of the finest country cemeteries in Manitoba. It has the creek on the south and west sides and large maples on the north and east. It is kept in the best possible condition by the people of the district. In 1921 a monument to the fallen heroes of. World War 1 was placed in it.

It was in the church that the first school was established in 1881. The building was located on John McKelvy's farm, the site of the present cemetery.

(Source: Historical Sketches of Katrime and Beaver Districts, pp 7,13 [Adapted])

The first settlers arrived in the Beaver District in the 1870s. Homes, two churches, a school and a hamlet were built. A prosperous agriculturally based community grew. Our heritage reflects the vision, leadership and toil of those early pioneers and the dedication of all who followed. The two churches that were built, were the Wesleyan Methodist church and the Hampton Presbyterian, later Union or United Church.

Two of the older people buried in the cemetery are Alice Ella Barrett who died age 100 years plus 16 days and Annie Brown who was born in 1797 and died December 30 1895.

(Source: Manitoba Genealogical Society [Adapted])

This cemetery contains a war memorial, unveiled at a ceremony on 24 July 1921, commemorating local men killed in military service during the First World War.

(Source: Manitoba Historical Society [Adapted])

Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD13-13-12-10-W1

In the Rural Municipality of North Norfolk

A part of the town's story and those of its inhabitants from the early days of European settlement through roughly 1946 is told in the volume "Historical Sketches of Katrime and Beaver Districts". A free digital version of this and many other Manitoba local history books can be found online in the University of Manitoba Digital Collections. There is also a list of such books organized by district and town name on the Manitoba Historical Society's website on their page entitled "Finding Aid: Manitoba Local History Books".

A list of burials in this cemetery is available from the Manitoba Genealogical Society (reference #0094), transcribed by a member or members in 1999. Also available to MGS members is a searchable online database named the "MGS Manitoba Name Index" (or MANI). Some additional information is contained in the 1996 MGS publication "Carved in Stone: Manitoba Cemeteries and Burial Sites" (revised edition, Special Projects Publication, 106 pages).

Also of note: many records for defunct United congregations in Manitoba, and those of the sects that merged to form it, are now kept in their main offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.