Description

CEM 214-Rev_St Paul’s Anglican Church Cemetery

Street Address:        Highway #6

Location: Lot 6, Concession 4, Glanford Township

Type of Cemetery: Religious (Anglican)

Responsible Agency: St. Paul’s Anglican Church Cemetery Board

Status for Burials: Open for Burials          Plot Plan: None

Size:         Medium, 300 monuments

Fencing: Hedgerow, and wire with open section Monument Types:             Flat, upright and columns Monuments of: Marble and granite

 

Date of Opening: 1850

History:

 

In the 1840s a group of local Anglicans met in Jacob Terryberry’s Hotel. Here the Reverend Robert Merritt organized the group to build a church and Joseph Choate donated an acre of hilltop land. The cemetery was in use by 1850, with the burial of Thomas P. French, and the church was constructed a year later, in 1851. The cemetery has always been known as St. Paul’s Anglican.

The cemetery contains a unique line of monuments which are cared for by the Church Cemetery Board: markers for 14 R.A.F. pilots who were killed while in training at Mount Hope Airport Training School during World War ll and who are buried in this church cemetery.

Notable Burials:

R.A.F. Servicemen 1941-1943 Thomas Choate (1773-1859) George Thomas French (1886-1947)

 

St. Paul’s Anglican Church (Glanford, Ont.) fonds. — 1849-1948. — 14 cm of textual records.

Anglican church activities in Glanford began in 1849. There was no church but Rev. R.N. Merritt, a travelling missionary, provided services. In 1851 is was agreed to build a church. On 7 May 1858 St. Paul’s was dedicated by the Bishop of Toronto. Over the years St. Paul’s was associated with several other churches, including St. Peter’s in Barton, Ont., St. George’s, Hannon, Ont., Christ Church, Woodburn, Ont. and St. George’s Tapleytown, Ont. For a more complete history see St. Paul’s Church (Anglican) Glandford, Ontario, 100th Anniversary.

Mount Hope is on Highway No. 6, about 20 kilometres south of Hamilton The fourteen war graves in this cemetery are together in one plot, and are those of the Royal Air Force personnel who were killed while training at No. 33 Air Navigation School near Hamilton.

The oldest monument in Saint Paul cemetery is for Thomas P. French son of Thomas & Jane French who died on the 7th of Sep 1850 aged 2 years 1 month & 10 days. No church was at the cemetery then, as it was not built until 1851.

There is a plot where 14 R.A.F. servicemen are interred who lost their lives during World War II at the Mount Hope Airport training school. The cemetery is extremely well kept and is still active today.