Sandy Hill Founders Cemetery
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Sandy Hill Founders Cemetery

Hawkesbury, Prescott and Russell United Counties, Ontario, Canada

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    Hawkesbury, Prescott and Russell United Counties, Ontario Canada
    Coordinates: 45.59458, -74.62681
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This abandoned cemetery, referred to variously as "Sandy Hill Cemetery", "Founders Cemetery" and "Wason's Cemetery", is located on the north side of Sandy Hill Road, equidistant between Fauteux Street and March Road, in Hawkesbury, Prescott & Russell United Counties, Ontario.

The cemetery is unregistered, and there is no signage of any kind indicating that it is a cemetery. The two intact stones that remain are loosely piled in a mound in the northwest corner of the heavily wooded lot. They are not visible from the street. Many small, broken, undecipherable bits of stones can be found around the periphery of the mound. All (both of) the stones visible as of summer 2016 have been photographed.

Nearby homeowners interviewed in 2016 stated that they believed that the cemetery was ‘cleared' in the early 1960s.

Credit for the transcriptions (those stones which have not been photographed, and can no longer be found) goes to Ross G. H. Coulton and Leslie P. Higgenson (1995); Bill Byers (1983); and Ethel Byers (1968).

Additional information is available from the Ontario Genealogical Society, Ottawa Branch, file 2857.








This abandoned cemetery, referred to variously as "Sandy Hill Cemetery", "Founders Cemetery" and "Wason's Cemetery", is located on the north side of Sandy Hill Road, equidistant between Fauteux Street and March Road, in Hawkesbury, Prescott & Russell United Counties, Ontario.

The cemetery is unregistered, and there is no signage of any kind indicating that it is a cemetery. The two intact stones that remain are loosely piled in a mound in the northwest corner of the heavily wooded lot. They are not visible from the street. Many small, broken, undecipherable bits of stones can be found around the periphery of the mound. All (both of) the stones visible as of summer 2016 have been photographed.

Nearby homeowners interviewed in 2016 stated that they believed that the cemetery was ‘cleared' in the early 1960s.

Credit for the transcriptions (those stones which have not been photographed, and can no longer be found) goes to Ross G. H. Coulton and Leslie P. Higgenson (1995); Bill Byers (1983); and Ethel Byers (1968).

Additional information is available from the Ontario Genealogical Society, Ottawa Branch, file 2857.








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