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Hamilton Cemetery

{{Short description|Cemetery in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada}}

{{Infobox cemetery

| name = Hamilton Cemetery

| image = HamiltonCemetery.JPG

| imagesize =

| caption = Entrance

| map_type = Canada Ontario

| map_size =

| map_caption = Location of Hamilton Cemetery

| established = 1847{{cite web|title=Hamilton Cemetery|url=https://www.hamilton.ca/parks-recreation/cemeteries/hamilton-cemetery|work=City of Hamilton|accessdate=23 November 2016}}

| country = Canada

| location = 777 York Boulevard, Hamilton, Ontario

| coordinates = {{coord|43.276643|-79.890186|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| type = Cemetery

| style =

| owner = Hamilton, Ontario

| size = ~100 acres{{cite web|title=Cemeteries 12.0 – City of Hamilton|url=http://www.hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/4B2EA394-3ECC-4A54-8076-D826CB66724F/0/SOTICemeteries.pdf|accessdate=4 June 2012|page=2|format=PDF}}

| graves = 21500

| interments = ~20

| cremations = ~30

| leases =

| website =

| findagraveid= 639424

}}

Hamilton Cemetery on York Boulevard in Hamilton, Ontario, is the oldest public burial ground in the city. It is located on Burlington Heights, a high sand and gravel isthmus that separates Hamilton's harbor on the east from Cootes Paradise on the west.

Historically, the cemetery consists of three, separate burial grounds over 100 acres: Burlington Heights Cemetery, the Christ Church Grounds, and the Church of Ascension Grounds. It has been a contentious issue whether a flood, which around the 1860s inundated the city, necessitated the recollection of gravestones to be amassed in one place.

From 1850 until 1892, each burial ground was administered separately, but by the beginning of the 1890s, the church wardens had difficulty paying for the maintenance and upkeep of their areas. In 1892, the City of Hamilton agreed to assume responsibility for all the grounds, which were renamed "Hamilton Cemetery".

Notable plots

=Mayors=

Thirty-three mayors of Hamilton are buried/interred here,{{cite web|title=Mayors of Hamilton|url=http://www.myhamilton.ca/guides/mayors-hamilton|work=Hamilton Public Library|access-date=4 June 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115114139/http://www.myhamilton.ca/guides/mayors-hamilton|archive-date=15 January 2013|df=}} including:

=Others=

File:GeorgeHamiltonTombstone2.JPG

File:SOUTHAM Gordon.jpg memorial]]

File:Tomb of George Washington Johnson and his third wife Nellie Johnson.jpg, who was buried with his third wife Nellie Johnson]]

Common stones

A large number of the stones contain masonic symbols, as well as a number of carved tree-stumps.{{cite web|last=irisheyesjg|title=Wordless Wednesday: Cemetery Trees|url=http://stiffsandstones.blogspot.ca/2010/07/wordless-wednesday-cemetery-trees.html|accessdate=5 June 2012|date=July 14, 2010|work=Over thy dead body}} Several family vaults are also found here, including the Sanford Vault, the Tuckett vault, the Thomas C Watkins vault, the Col. Land Family Vault and the Stinson Family Mausoleum. Oddly, there is indication that these crypts are renovations of an existing (ancient) stone building. Even more curious, is that these crypts are half-buried in a mound of earth.

War graves

The cemetery contains the war graves of 139 Commonwealth service personnel, 127 from World War I and 12 from World War II.[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/49314/HAMILTON%20CEMETERY,%20HAMILTON] CWGC Cemetery Report. Breakdown obtained from casualty records.

References

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External links

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  • [http://cemetery.canadagenweb.org/ON/ONH14566/ Ontario: Hamilton Cemetery, Wentworth County] – CanadaGenWeb Cemetery Project
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Category:Cemeteries in Ontario