Kean Family Farm Cemetery
Location:
Kean Hill Drive (Moffat), Milton, Halton Region, Ontario, Canada.
Concession 2, lot 16, Nassagaweya Township.
GPS:
Latitude: 43.516°N
Longitude: –80.051°W
History:
This cemetery is very wild and overgrown but at one time it was enclosed by a stone fence. The stones have fallen down, but one can still see their outline. There was only one stone that I could find – it stated the following:
“This Stone of Remembrance Marks the Burial ground of BENJAMIN KEAN, his wife JANE McKINLEY and family. First interment 29th January 1831.”
Alex S. Cooke, November 1981
Benjamin Kean was one of the trustees of the Brookville Disciples of Christ Church, which was located on the west half of Lot 17 Concession 4 Nassagaweya Township. The present location of the village of Brookville is Guelph Line north of Regional Road 15 and is now part of the Town of Milton. Trudy Mann in her book, Early Churches of Nassagaweya and Nelson Townships, Halton County, states that the church was organized by James Black who came from Eramosa Township in the 1850s. The trustees of the church purchased part of the west half of Lot 17 Concession 4 in 1868 from D. McNair and his wife and erected the church in 1870. The church closed in 1900 and Benjamin Kean sold the property in 1904.
Benjamin Kean was also associated with another cemetery, Lapps Cemetery, which was located on either Lot 16 or Lot 18, Concession 2, Nassagaweya Township, but which can no longer be found. Kean originally owned the land and when it was sold to William Holmes it was noted that there was right of access to a burial ground.
Dorothy Kew
Transcription purchase:
No transcription has been made available for purchase, because the cemetery had so few stones.