Moffat United Church Cemetery
Also known as: Bethany Methodist Episcopal Cemetery
Location:
15th Sideroad (Moffat), Milton, Halton Region, Ontario, Canada.
Concession 2, lot 15, Nassagaweya Township.
GPS:
Latitude: 43.507°N
Longitude: –80.0557°W
History:
In 1877, Jacob Allison sold a small part of an acre on No. 15 sideroad to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church for a chapel and burying ground. On the 1858 Tremaine map of the area, some sort of church was located on the corner of this lot. The red brick church was built in 1877. Services were held both Sunday morning and evening: the regular form of Methodist worship in the morning and a revival meeting in the evening. Everyone went to the evening service; those who didn’t belong enjoyed the entertainment of the livelier service, and it was a good meeting place for the younger people. Lay preachers went up and down the aisles asking those who wanted to be saved to come to the front where they knelt on benches. Henry and Billie Patterson were among the lay speakers.
The church had a row of very crude rough seats up each aisle and in the centre. There was a huge box stove for heat in the middle at the back. They had an organ and a raised platform at the front with a pulpit in the centre. In the late 1800’s, the Sunday School Superintendent was Hiram Wallace, soloist Rose Cusick (Mrs. Wm Reid), and the choir, Annie Donaven (Mrs. Walter Turner), Kate Donaven (Mrs. Geo Cusick), George Cusick, Henry Cusick and Henry Wingrove.
– from Nassagaweya – a history of Campbellville and surrounding area, published by the Campbellville Historical Society.
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