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Having learned that this was a cause of dissention, he promptly offered to give the
land requisite for this purpose and the offer being accepted, several men soon after
collected, no1 led off the logs, and othewise prepared the land for the internment
of the dead, this was the beginning of the present graveyard.

The cemetery was enlarged twice with the land comming of the same property. The
first piece was aquired from Mr. Titley when he owned it and the second piece came
from the present owner Mr. Harvey Vokey.

On the cemetery mentioned above, the Rev. Mr. John King, Baptist minister in -,Dales-
vil le for over 40 years wri tes:
" that burrrying-ground has become a very intersting place; in it, and in the lives
of those who rest there, may be read a history of the Settlement from its beginning
near half a century. There was laid there, not long ago, the remains of a man close
on 90 years of age. He was an Irishman name Kerr, who had been a soldier and fought
the French in Egypt, under Abercrombie. He had never been a Christian till a short
time before his death, when he was converted and died happy."

The above was written in the latter part of the 19th century. The Rev. John King,
who rode the circuit over a large area is buried in the Dalesville Cemetery along
with his family. He died in 1893 and before his death has written a great deal on
the Dalesville Baptist Church. The Baptist Church in Dalesville is a large stone
building, and was erected in 1835. The records go back to about 1825.

We should not here that many of the families buried in this cemetery were pioneers
of this area and some were also related to families buried in the Edina Cemetery.

FIRST SETTLERS

The f irst settler at Dalesvil le was Donald McKerricher, from Glenlyon, Perthshi re,
Scotland. He came some time between 1820 and 1825, and, no doubt, attracted to this
section by its resemblance to the hills and glens of his native shire, he took up
lot 17, in the 10th range. Fro three weeks he pursued his labor here in the forest
with no neighbors nearer to him than Lachute, when one day he heard the sound of an
axe in the woods adjacent. Astonished, yet no doubt glad to know that some other
human being was near, he repaired to the spot whence the sounds proceeded, and found
a man named John McGibbon, who had come from his own native place. Glenlyon,
Perthshire, and taken up Lot 16, 10th Range, adjoining his own. Soon after the advent
of these two pioneers came two brothers, Peter and John McFarlane, and about the same
time al so came Archie and John McArthur. Among others who soon fol lowed were Peter
and Al exander McGibbon, Malcolm McGregor, John, Hugh and Duncan McCal lum, Donald and
Duncan McPhail , al1 from Glenlyon.

In his annals of this place, the Rev. John King said:-" this section should have been
left to wild animals and as hunting ground for the Indians, as it is evident nature
never intended it to be an agricultural country, and that any population seeking to
live here by agriculture must be a poor one ".

In 1830, Dan Dale built a saw mill to which he added a grist mill in 1838. The
district was later named Dalesvil'te. Before this it was know as the rear of Chatham.
Daniel Dale, "good old Dan Dale" as Mr. King speaks of him, came to Pt. Fortune from
Belfast, Ireland, in the year 1818. He moved to Dalesville in 1829 or 1830, where he
buil t the above mills. They were the first mills here, and though simple and crude