Description

CEM 327_Stoney Creek Muncipal Cemetery

Street Address: 2860 King Street East

Location: Lot 27, Concession 4, Saltfleet Township

Type of Cemetery: Religious (Methodist Episcopal, Wesleyan Methodist), Municipal

Responsible Agency: City of Hamilton

Status for Burials: Closed for burials       Plot Plan: Exists

Size:         Large, 1255 monuments

Additional Information:

Signage: No signage Fencing: Chain link

Monument Types:      Flat, upright, column and vault Monuments of: Marble and granite

Opened in either 1807 or 1811 (it is unsure which)

History:

A Methodist Episcopal Chapel referred to as the “Chapel in the Bush” was erected in the early 1800s on a hill owned by John McDavid (or McDeade), and served as barracks during the War of 1812. The cemetery was known to have been used for the burial of Janot Nichol in 1811, though there are claims to earlier interments of McDavid’s children and Phobe Bates in 1807. Following the Battle of Stoney Creek in 1813, many of the casualties were buried here, while the remaining bodies were buried at Smith’s Knoll. In 1830, James Gage donated the property to the Episcopal Methodist Church, which in 1833 become a Wesleyan Methodist Church until the Methodist Union. In 1913, with a church no longer at the site, it became a municipal cemetery.

Notable Burials:

John Burwell Davis (1861-1952) Inventor, Justice of the Peace William Gage (1744-1820) Farmer

Billy Green (1794-1877) War of 1812 Hero Erland Lee (1864-1906) Farmer

Janet Lee (1862-1940) Founder of the Canadian Women’s Institutes, Teacher Ernest D’Israeli Smith (1853-1948) Industrialist ( E. D. Smith Company) Politician