At a Brotherhood Meeting held on January 12, 1939, the decision was reached to erect a new church building. The measurements of the structure were to be sixty by thirty feet (14.4 m x 7.7m), and the location two miles (3.2 km) east of Whitewater on #3 highway. In the spring of 1939 construction began. The acreage was large enough for a in the north-west corner.

Between the years 1931 and 1939, some burials took place at the Boissevain cemetery. After the church was built on the farm in 1939, mostly all deceased were buried at that cemetery, but after the new church was built in Boissevain, all burials were in the Boissevain cemetery,

NOTE: This local history book includes lists of burials in this cemetery and on local family farms known to the authors at the time of its publication. Some of the records pertaining to the family farm burials were lost in a fire at the offices of the then RM of Deloraine

(Source: History of the Whitewater Mennonite Church 1927-1987, p 42 and pp 62ff [1987; Adapted])

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Established in 1939. The Russian Mennonites arrived in the Municipality of Morton in 1924 and 1925. They set about the task of establishing a Mennonite church - at first in large homes. Then they obtained permission to use a pretty, empty and neglected church in the village of Whitewater for their services on Sunday mornings. The English residents used it on Sunday evenings, during the summer months.

In January 1939, the Whitewater Mennonites community decided to erect a new church at the above mentioned site. This church was opened on October 8, 1939, and served the area till 1960 when a new church was built in Boissevain.

(Source: Manitoba Genealogical Society [Adapted])

Between 1923 and 1929, two groups of Mennonite settlers from Russia arrived in southwestern Manitoba. In late 1925, they occupied an abandoned church in the community of Whitewater to establish the Whitewater Mennonite Church. It is believed that the first burials in the adjacent cemetery occurred in 1939.

(Source: Manitoba Historical Society [Adapted])

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Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD04-15-03-21-W1

In the Municipality of Boissevain-Morton

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As noted above, a part of the story of the town and its inhabitants from the early days of European settlement is told in the volume "History of the Whitewater Mennonite Church 1927-1987", especially on the cited page. Other related books include:

- Beckoning Hills (1953)

- Beckoning Hills Supplement (1956)

- Beckoning Hills Revisited; Ours is a Goodly Heritage 1881-1981

- Beckoning Hills - Dawn of the New Millenium Boissevain-Morton 1981 - 2006

Digital versions of these books and many other 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".

In addition to the list noted above, a list of burials in this cemetery is available from the Manitoba Genealogical Society (reference #0214), transcribed by a member or members in 1986. 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).

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NOTE: Some church records are held at the Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies (CMBS)

Additionally, the Manitoba Mennonite Society curates and makes available extensive records related to the communities established by the families of their faith who contributed to the story of Manitoba.