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Old Baptist Cemetery

Located at the corner of John Street Road and Townline Road,
N1/2 Lot 1 Con 3 Oliver Township

I have been to visit this cemetery, it is abandoned & is located in the corner of a farmers field. There appeared to be no road in or out of this cemetery so were only able to see from the roadside. The names of the buried were obtained from the book "History of Oliver Township 1879-1979" & from the cemetery records at the Brodie Resource Library, Thunder Bay, Ont by the Thunder Bay District Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. From the Oliver Township book in brief it says "The land was originally owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ryde and they buried 2 of their young children there and eventually allowed the Baptist Church to bury other people there and it was then called a cemetery. It is understood that there may be at least 30-40 people buried there.

Names marked with a * indicate another source for death such as an obituary/death registration, etc...

Ryde - 2 children
Possibility that one of the Ryde children was:
Ryde, Archibald died June 23, 1897 age 3 years
Residence S1/2 L7, C4

Mary Hoskins
wife of L. Hiller
Born June 14, 1853
Died Sept. 18, 1897

John Hoskins
Born May 22, 1818
Died *June 6, 1899
age 81

Grace (Allen) Hoskins
Born Aug 19, 1819
Died *Sept.8, 1900
age 82

Martha Hoskins
Born Dec. 8, 1859
Died Oct. 10, 1877

Peter Beveridge
Died June 10, 1882

John Wright
Born Jan 20, 1815
Died Jan 2, 1892

Elizabeth Wright
Born Aug 4, 1818
Died May 2, 1891

From death registrations & burial of family members,
this is the most likely place of burial for the following

Christina Wright Hoskins
*died 12 Sept 1909 age 63

Husband
John Hoskins
died *8 May 1916 age 68 years

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