Jollimore Cemetery

Left hand side of the Purcell's Cove Road

History of Jollimore Cemetery 

Deed registered 6 Oct. 1884, indenture 12 Sept. 1884 between Henry CD

Twining, Barrister at Law, and Hibbert Binney, Lord Bishop of N.S. for

one dollar of lawful money of N.S. Unto the Lord Bishop and his

successors in office, all the land long appropriated and used as a

burial ground, situated on the property known as Boscobel, on the

Northwest Arm near the City of Halifax, and described as…128 feet on

the north, 80 feet on the east, 104 feet on the south, and 92 feet on

the west. To have and to hold the said piece of land forever in trust

for the inhabitants of the Western side of the North West Arm for the

burial of their dead.

The original settlers on the 50 acres surrounding the graveyard were

John Georg and Sophia (Slaunwhite) Jollimore who came to the Northwest

Arm in 1826 with their large family.  Burials may have taken place as

early as 1844 when Mrs. George (Susanna Westhaver) Boutilier drowned in

the Northwest Arm in front of her home which, in 1844, was located on

the shore of the Arm where Boulderwood Drive now ends.

Courtesy of Iris Shea.

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