Lowville United Church Cemetery
Location:
2749 Britannia Road (Lowville), Burlington, Halton Region, Ontario, Canada.
Concession 3, lot 6, Nelson Township.
GPS:
Latitude: 43.427°N
Longitude: –79.9011°W
History:
The cemetery is located on the north side of Britannia Road, just west of the Guelph line (Lot 6 Concession 3).
First half acre of land for a cemetery was purchased from Gideon Buck in 1864. Another ¼ acre was donated by Edwin Coulson in 1906, and another piece was acquired 1955 from Howard Coulson. The last .652 acres was purchased from Irma Coulson in 1972.
One of the first people buried here was a man named Jackson who died of a hip disease. The disease was rare and a group of students wanted the body for study. Friends decided against this and guarded the grave for weeks. Finally they decided to fill the grave with boulders which would be burglar-proof. The grave was deliberately left unmarked, but a small rose tree grew over it for a number of years.
Lowville United Church, on the south-west corner of Britannia Road and Guelph Line, was first a frame structure in 1833 and known as Colling’s Church. The name was changed in 1855 to Lowville Wesleyan Methodist. The present brick church was built about 1873 and at the Union of 1925 became Lowville United Church.
Lowville was on the Nelson Circuit, Milton Circuit and Lowville Circuit which was begun in 1871. In 1889 it became the Lowville-Zimmerman Circuit. Zimmerman closed in 1975 with the congregation amalgamating with Lowville.
The earliest burial register found to date is 1906 to the present which is held by the Lowville Church. This transcription has not been checked to this register.
This cemetery that serves the community is looked after by the Lowville United Church Cemetery Board of which Keith Millar [as of 1982] is the Secretary Treasurer (RR 3 Campbellville, L0P 1B0). Burials are still taking place in the cemetery.
Jane Watt / Trudy Mann
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