Palermo United Church Cemetery
Location:
2521 Dundas Street West (Palermo), Oakville, Halton Region, Ontario, Canada.
Concession 1, lot 29, Trafalgar Township.
GPS::
Latitude: 43.43851°N
Longitude: -79.77270°N
History:
The earliest record of the church at Palermo was in 1812 when Lawrence Hager, UEL recorded in his diary that he had invited Elder Case to preach in the Hager home. In 1815 he organized the first Methodist class in the district and became its leader. He was an Episcopal Methodist.
In 1818, a parcel of land in Lot 30 Concession 1 south was sold to Duncan McQueen, James Hopperd and James McBride by Charles Teetzel for the sum of two pounds and ten shillings. The agreement said the land was “forever for the sole and proper use of a place to bury the dead for them and as many of the inhabitants of Trafalgar lying between the Twelve and Sixteen Mile Creeks as may think proper to join them: as also for a Meeting House and a School House should the same at any time be required”.
A log church was built in 1812 on the lot where the cemetery is now located. The Wesleyan Methodists were first mentioned in an article in the Christian Guardian in 1851. The two frame churches seem to have stood side by side on the cemetery lot until 1867. In that year, 17 years before the general union of Methodist churches, they united and built the present church. At the time of the union a small minority continued to worship in the small frame church. Eventually it was closed and used as a stable.
from a history by the Rev M J Aitken, 1962
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