Description

CEM 127-Rev_vansickle_cemetery

Other Known Names: Jerseyville Baptist Church Burial Grounds

Street Address:        Jerseyville Road West

Location: Lots 14 & 15, Concession 3, Ancaster

Type of Cemetery: Family (VanSickle), Religious (Baptist)

Responsible Agency: City of Hamilton

Status for Burials: Open for burials          Plot Plan: None

Size:         Small, 97 monuments

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

Jerseyville Road approximately 1 km east of Lynden Road Intersection at the Jerseyville Baptist Church.

This cemetery is well over a century old and is fully maintained by Hamilton Wentworth Region Municipality. It still accepts new burials.

Date of Opening: 1817

History:

Just outside the boundary of Jerseyville, once known as the Baptist Settlement, is the former Baptist Church Burial Grounds. This cemetery is currently known as the Vansickle Cemetery because of the family’s prominance both in the cemetery and the surrounding area.

In 1852, Charles Drake purchased part of Lot 14 from Crown Patentee, Hon. Robert Hamilton. A year later Drake sold the property to Abraham Vansickle. In 1869, Vansickle sold one acre in the northeast corner to the Baptist Church for a cemetery. The burial ground was almost certainly in existence before this transaction, and may even have begun as a small family plot for the Drake family, before it was bought by the VanSickles in the 1850s.

It is currently a private cemetery administered by the City of Hamilton.