Shiloh Primitive Methodist Cemetery
Also known as: Tormore.
Location:
Highway 50 (south of Mayfield Road), Brampton, Peel Region, Ontario, Canada.
Concession 12, lot 17, Toronto Gore Township.
History:
Tormore was originally called Hartsville or Hart’s Corners after Robert Hart, a settler from Yorkshire, England, who lived on Concession 12, lot 17, Toronto Gore.
The half-acre property was sold by George Hall and his wife, Sarah Anne Hall, to the trustees of the Primitive Methodist Connexion in Canada, for one halfpenny on December 12, 1850. In 1851, a frame church and two horse sheds were built on the front of the property and the remaining land was used as a burial ground. One of its first travelling preachers, Rev. William Jolley, was buried at Shiloh in 1870.
In 1901, the congregations of Shiloh and Coleraine united to build a new church, and a site was chosen half a mile south of Shiloh. The new brick Central Methodist Church was opened in 1903. Shiloh Church and the horse sheds had been torn down and removed from the property in 1902. The last burial at Shiloh was that of Lester Shuttleworth in 1905.
In the years that followed, the cemetery was neglected badly. In 1930, a board of trustees was formed and a trust established to care for the old Shiloh Cemetery. A new fence was built and the grounds cared for. With the widening of Highway 50, the Ontario Department of Highways built new stone posts at the front of the cemetery.
In 1967, the trustees of Shiloh Cemetery were Mr. Wilson Thomas, Mr. Frank Thomas, and Mr. Norman McCabe.
Information from the book “From This Year Hence”, written by Geo. S. Tavender
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