Page 9 - Dictionary of Heraldry and Related Subjects

from Undon, Englandj, Thonas Foole and George Kerr (recorakg
sxewards in 1853 and 18401, riobcr-t Elliott (R ~teward), Thoras
Cairns (~erth postmaster, pr:nter and recording stsward for
the last quarter of the 19th Century), and Fohn Deacon, Jr,
(3). William BCcGrath died in Ferth or. Feb. 12, 1847 et age 6 j
after a short illness (41, and Rsbert Elliott, an im~igrant
from County Car-an to Burgess Township in 1816 and a building
contractor in Perth ir! 28 58 [12], died cn January 26, 1869 at
age 77 (4) . George Kerr, merchan L and crown land agent (12) ,
his wife, anc! dau hter Eliza Ann XRster are >,dried in the
cemetery (stones 102 and 1031, as are Thomas Poole's eldeet
son John and hic wifc Alice timite (R~OVF! # 96). Both Jrjhn
Deacons, Senior and Junior, achieved promin$nce in the com-
munity. The layter was a b=rister, mayor of Perth and judge
in Penbroke and Ranfrew (3, 4, 51, The fomsr, a resiCent of
South BherProoke Tomship, died of dysentry (4) and vias
buried in this cemetery [stone # 371, after ssrvlng as
magistrate, colmcillor and reeve (51 ; he attracted ptlblic
atlention in 1825, when he mu-red a 20 x 3!r - foot frame house
on log rollers 200 yards v:ith the help cf 50 yoke of oxen (63.
His parents, James Sr. md Ann (natives of 1relar.d) diei at
the advancec ages of 91. ard 108 years in Drummanc and South
ELnsleg To~mshipe, respectively on Sept . 6, 1848 and October
16, 1867 (4) ,
In 1842 the Chapel trustees were Jchn Jackson, Richard
Rudsdale, T'nomas Focle, Ifilliam McGratn, Elisha Drew, Josias
Richey and Joshua Adms, md the parsonage building committee
include3 iiie last thrse plus Jmac Flintoft and George Kerr
(7). The stewards elected for 1843 included Carr Thoxpson,
Thomas James and Thcmas Lebron, basidns son:e already menticned.
The trtrsteee of the burying ground deeded by tke Govemsnt in
1843 were Adms, Poole, Drew, Richey, Kerr, Flintol't and McCrath,
By 184.4 th~ first two had been replaced by Robert Ellistt and
John McKay r Richay agreed to make a plan (now lost) of the
burying ground with lots nuc~bered in blocks of 16 fect quare,
"leaving a re~erve .for strangers". Subscribers would psy in
aefance "to defray the expenses of ecclosing the burial ground"
(7).ustczs or members of their faxilies buried here incl~de
Capt, Joshuz Adane [stone # 541, who Cied at the Pert? horce of
his son-in-law Henry iYooi*house in 1863 (41, and hi€ *trlfe
Elizabeth Chipman ($ 11-71 vho died at their home in Aiarr,sville
in 1856. Adarns, an early innkeeper ad hos; to ilirie~.arrt
MethoCist circuit-riders, was me of the last District
Councillors for Gathurst in 1249 and Warden of the District
Cuurrcil, while IJworhouse {#48), zi lumberman and xilloivn~r in
Pei-th in 1858 (12), was Treasurer of Perth in 1579-1880 (5) ;
George Karr (mentioned atove) was Tovrn Auditor the satre year,
and J~sia~ Ritchie or Ricne (# 43) Mas Reeve of Bathurst -
South Sherbrooke in 1850 [5r, Kany Lanark settlers roved on to
Lambton County, like James Flintoft, at whose borne in Sarnia
his father Christopher died in 1854 (4). Elisha Drew was the
victim cI' a particularly unruly "cilarivari" in July 1E46,
when he remarried rather soan zfter the loss of his wife (Anne
Drew ?#i7), Besides the usual rioto~s pran:zs "a band of law-
les3 ruffian2 ... demanded a certain amount of rr.oney from him.
Mr. Drew, a respectable and peaceable inhabitant, refused,
whereupon he vas struck down with a club, and is now under
medical treatment and in a precarious state. R young rnan in