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CENTRE EARDUY CEMETERY

Centre JEardiey ~nited Church is a white wooden structure on
the north side of Xwy. 8 acioss from %he residence of George S.
Hetherington, about nine miles qnorth-west .,of Aylmer , Quebec. The
church was orlginally Methodist, and remains a mission of ~ylmer
United Church, although it now operates only in the swnmer rnonths.
Entries are ,madè9 in the registers of the Aylmer church, of which
there are only three books da-tlng before 1918,. and these include
entries dated-3851-61, 1875-78, and 1886-1918. Records for other
years appeaz,.to have ..een lost, so same of the gravestsnes at
Centre Eardley 'prese'live Ûhique information.
The cerneteif appFasn6 +to date f@bm the I.880sr and the stone
of two infant d.~u&t,ers of" Robertr Breckenridge (#16) appears to
be one of the oldest; It 5s a nirieteenth century limestone marker
bearing s carving of ià'?ose and the dates 1880 and 1882, There are
several dates of de&h earlier than 1880, but most of those con-
cerned probablf were not enterred here , The name of Steadman Bebee,
who died in 1857 (#17), is to be found also on a much older stons
in Bellevue Cemetery, betweén Aylmer and Hull, bearing the inscrip- .
tion "erected by his wife". The wife was Elizabeth Murdrnan, a daugh-
ter of Henry Hurdman Sr,, and she was buried in Bellevue in 1903
a4; .?he ~e of, 86. Her name does not appear on a stone in e ither
ccmetery. The-burial place cf Richard Hyland (#39.) remains unknown
-I;o this wrfief, but his wife Mary McGee, who is mentioned on the
Zamily stone here in Centre Ear-dley, was actually buried fn the
graveyard of St. Luke's Anglican Church, several miles further up
*Lhe road.
There are alsa a niinber of unmarked. gravea, some of f airly recent
d~te, Those known ta this writer include:
Willizm Cook Kadmoke CSept.2T11839-July 21,1910) Bon of Ehanuel
Radmore and Jane Moffatt. He was barn in Hull twp, but hived
in Eardlev.
Hiû .if e ~r%nces Faris an. 16,1841-~e$t. 12,1905) daughter of
John Faris and Marv Benedict.
T;;omas He therington ~MW. 27, i863-~ar. 4,1948) son of Joseph
fietherington Jr, and Lucy Benedict.
Hi$ wife Kary Mulligan (dug.22,1867-~m,24,1906) daughter of
Francis NuLligan who moved Srorn'Neyean to 0nsluw and his wife
hlargaret Hyland (daughter of Richard), who are buried
St. Lulce's.
The ir childreni
Geo.Thos.Hetherfngton {M~Y 6-27, 18923.
Lena May {Feb. 11-28,1899).
Percy Robert Thomas une 30,1900-July 22, 1938).
Edward John (~ec.24,1902-~ay 16,1962)~
Margery Rebecca (~pr. 21,1905-Feb. 21,1923).

Ihere are atones to several pioneers at Centre
that of Steadman Bebee who was a juror at the f irst coroner" iinquest
in Hull in Denr7:ber 1822 and whose name appears an the 1823 contract
ta bulld St, James Angliczn Church, the first church in the Ottawa
VaLl.ey. Richard Hyland was born in Ireland but was in Hull by 1824,
and hic nme appears on the Hull Militia return for JuZy 1825, Hi8
fmily nioved hto Eardley in the 18509.
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