In 1892 the people of the Wallace and Mt. Vernon school districts of the Anglican faith held their first church services in a vacant house known at the time as the Crofton home situated on Sec. 32-12-19(-W1). Settlers were few and far between and many walked as far as four to five miles. Some came via horse and cart. Service carried on in this building for a few years and they moved their services to Wallace School and enjoyed a much better building and better accommodation.

Services carried on in Wallace and with more settlers moving into the district on April 10, 1900, at a meeting held in Wallace School, they decided to build a church that would serve both Wallace and Mount Vernon Districts. At this meeting, they appointed committees to raise funds, pick a site for the church, and the type of church to build. Again on Aug. 9, 1900, a meeting was held and it was at this meeting they decided when to build and what type of church. The site for the church to be on was chosen on the NW corner of the farm owned by Mr. T.C. Hardy, NW-21-12-19(-W1) and it was to be of construction with a steeple complete with bell.

In April 1901 the plans were all finalized. The builders were engaged. On June 18 1901, twenty-six men and twenty-three teams met at the church site to work and draw material, the building began, with all the different committees taking their part, and in early September the church was finished.

On Sept. 15, 1901, the church was opened, our first service with the Archbishop of Rupertsland, Primate of Canada, the Rev. Wm. Stocko, assisting. Our first organist was Miss B. Naisbett, our first wardens. Mr. T.G. Waghornand Mrs. Wm. Budd and our first secretary-treasurer, Mr. T.C. Hardy. The church was not one year old when on Jan. 24, 1902, the body of the late Mr. James A. Boyd was brought to the cemetery adjoining the church for burial, our first funeral service in the church and on Aug. 6, 1902, our first marriage was solemnized in the church between Miss Linda May Atkinson and Mr. Daniel George Long and on June 15, 1902 Mr. and Mrs. T.G. Waghorn brought their infant daughter Annie Maud to the church to be baptized. Our first baptism.

(Source: A History of Elton Municipality in its First Century - Homesteaders and Homemakers, p 54 [Adapted])

This cemetery in the Rural Municipality of Elton contains a monument, erected in 1996, commemorating St. George's Anglican Church built here in 1901. The building was demolished in early 1986.

(Source: Manitoba Historical Society [Adapted])

Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD13-21-12-19-W1

As noted above, a part of the town's story and those of its inhabitants from the early days of European settlement through roughly 1973 is told in the volume "A History of Elton Municipality in its First Century - Homesteaders and Homemakers", especially starting on page 54. A free digital version of this and many other Manitoba local history books can be found online in the University of Manitoba Digital Collections. There is also a list of such books organized by district and town name on the Manitoba Historical Society's website on their page entitled "Finding Aid: Manitoba Local History Books".

A list of burials in this cemetery is available from the Manitoba Genealogical Society (reference #0120), transcribed by a member or members in 1978 and updated in 2001. Also available to MGS members is a searchable online database named the "MGS Manitoba Name Index" (or MANI). Some additional information is contained in the 1996 MGS publication "Carved in Stone: Manitoba Cemeteries and Burial Sites" (revised edition, Special Projects Publication, 106 pages).

Additionally, many records for Anglican congregations in Manitoba and over part of the territory designated historically as "Rupert's Land" (esp, as bounded on the south by the U.S. border, extending north into the Manitoba Interlake Region past Fairford, with the western boundary reaching into the Pembina Hills and includes Portage la Prairie, eastward the diocese stretches to Sioux Lookout/Atikokan) are now with the Diocese of Rupert's Land and are kept in their offices in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.