Mayfield United Church Cemetery
Location:
12496 Dixie Road, Caledon, Peel Region, Ontario, Canada.
Concession 3E, lot 20, Chinguacousy Township.
GPS:
Latitude: 43.77176°N
Longitude: -79.80610°W
History:
“This cemetery is built on the bank of a stream about 25 feet above the stream and is about one-half acre in size, with stones of white and grey marble.
Some people who attend the Presbyterian (now United) Church at Mayfield say that everyone in the cemetery is related! This ‘familyness’ of the Mayfield Presbyterian Church was a byword in the district.
The first man buried in this cemetery was Pat Speirs, a son of old Pat. He and his brother, Adam, took a team of oxen and went away over three concessions east of Brampton to build a log house. They stayed overnight at a settler’s house and in the morning, in spite of the fact that he had a cold, went up into the bush to leave a load of lumber they had. In a few days he was dead of pneumonia. That was in 1836”.
Excerpts from Wm. Perkins Bull notes, Peel Archives, Brampton [PAMA] Jan Speers
The very old gravestones of Mayfield United Cemetery have been cleaned, repaired, and placed in two cairns complemented by beautiful stonework. Each cairn displays 24 gravestones.
A memorial stone reads:
MAYFIELD UNITED CHURCH CEMETERY
PRESBYTERIAN PRIOR TO 1925
CONGREGATION FORMED 1830
FIRST BURIAL PATRICK SPEIRS JR 1837
LAND DONATED BY PATRICK SPEIRS SR 1842
FIRST CHURCH ERECTED 1842
SECOND CHURCH BUILDING OPENED 1875
CAIRN ERECTED 1980
ON 150TH ANNIVERSARY
OF CONGREGATION
June Cuthbert
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