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family many, like them, from Co. Kilkenny, Ireland. But this grave-
yard never grew very large, and it is now officially closed. The
Wiggans and Clarke families both established graveyards on their
farms around 1870 through provisions made by will. While the Eiggans
burial ground never grew beyond its original two graves and was
eventually destroyed, Clarke's Cemetery became the present cornunity
cemetery, Maple Grove. The other graveyard included was the earlier
Union Cemetery, dating probably from the 1840s, located behind the
old Union Church which served Hazeldean's almost purely Irish Protes-
tant population. It was gradually supplanted by Maple Grove in the
early twentieth century. Some members of the community were buried
in the Anglican cemetery at South March or the Methodist cemetery
at Stittsville.
Goulbourn Township is fortunate to have a municipal council that
takes its legal responsibilities for the upkeep of its pioneer grave-
yards seriously. The Scharf and Union Cemeteries, along with the
Shillington Cenetery further west, were rescued from decay in the
1950s and are a worthy monument to that township's pioneers.
-B. E.
The Recording
This publication is a cooperative effort of Ottawa Branch members
Marjorie Moodie and Bruce Elliott. Marjorie recorded the Union Ceme-
tery. Bruce did Maple Grove, and both did the Scharf Cemetery.
Marjorie and branch cemetery coord~nator, Dorothy Relyea, checked the
Maple Grove recording, and Dorothy photocopied the original Maple Grove
plot plan of 1877. Marjorie transcribed the Anglican burial records
and the Maple Grove burial certificates, and contributed many of the
obituaries included at the back. Bruce copied the few Methodist burial
entries and the obituaries from the Anglican Parish Magazine. Mar-
jorie prepared the map of the Scharf Cemetery and Bruce the one for
the Union Cemetery. The introductions were also divided between us
and we shared the photographic work. Bruce compiled the index and
typed the final version.
We are grateful to Mr. Orville Clarke for allowing us to consult
the burial certificates and the 1877 plot plan, and to Mr. Wilbur
Bradley for loaning the present plot plan of Maple Grove for copying.
Ken Collins saw to the reproduction and reduction of this plan, the
shape of which made it a printer's nightmare. We are also indebted to
Mr. John Francis, the Anglican Diocesan Archivist, and his predecessor
Archdeacon Wilfred Bradley, custodians of the records of the Church of
England for the Diocese of Ottawa. Ella Smith and Doris Waddell pro-
vided important inforn~ation for the section on the Wiggans burial
ground. Earlier, less detailed, recordings of the Scharf and Maple
Grove Cemeteries by Elvyna and Midge Sevigny allowed us to complete
the inscription of a stone that has since been vandalized and gave us
some useful second opinions on the more doubtful readings. Kae Kirk
provided a nice old photo of the Union Cemetery.
August, 1980.