Description

CEM 216-Rev_White Church Cemetery

Street Address:        White Church Road

Location: Lot 5, Concession 5, Glanford Township

Type of Cemetery: Religious (Methodist Episcopal, Methodist, United)

Responsible Agency: City of Hamilton

Status for Burials: Open for Burials          Plot Plan: None, Destroyed

Size:         Medium, 350 monuments

Signage: No Signage Fencing: Wire and concrete

Monument Types:      Flat, upright and columns Monuments of: Marble and granite

Date of Opening: 1831

History:

The earliest known interment in the cemetery is dated 1831. The property was purchased from Christian Fink in 1838, and was used for the site of a Methodist Episcopal Church. Originally part of a three-point charge with Case and Binbrook churches, in 1884 it became part of the Glanford Circuit with the Union of Methodist Churches. By 1913 services had ceased, and at some later date the church was destroyed or removed.

A Plot Plan for White Church Cemetery existed at one time, but like the church it no longer exists and all that remains are the cemetery markers. For many years following the closure of the church the cemetery was untended, with many of the early marble markers now almost covered by grass. In recent years it has come under the care of the City of Hamilton.

This cemetery contains the body of Maggie Clark, buried in 1865 and subject of the poem/song “When You and I Were Young, Maggie” written by George W. Johnson.