St George Rural Cemetery
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St George Rural Cemetery

Saint George, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada

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St. George Rural Cemetery is a late-19th century cemetery with over 3,800 known burials. The cemetery is situated on two parcels of land (PID# 01316637 & PID# 01218478) with an accumulative total of 19 acres of land. The oldest portion of the cemetery is located at the bottom of the hill (western section of PID# 01316637). St. George Rural Cemetery was established in the late 19th century as the St. Mark's/First Community Cemetery reached capacity. On April 18, 1876 the Act to Incorporate the St. George Rural Cemetery Company was passed by the Provincial Government. In 1963, the cemetery acquired the second parcel of land (PID# 01316637) from Mr. Burton Stewart. The cemetery is accessible from the end of Carleton Street (74 Carleton Street East/Extension). Among the important people buried at St. George Rural Cemetery are Hon. Arthur Hill Gillmor (1824-1903) and his son, Hon. Daniel Gillmor (1849-1918), both of whom were Senators of the Dominion of Canada. The cemetery has many gravestones that reflect the once thriving local granite industry and its associated businessmen such as Epps, Meating, Coutts, Milne and O'Brien. These men created and sustained the granite industry in St. George for more than 80 years. Their gravestones are monumental, ornate and finished in red, black and pink locally quarried granite. The cemetery is considered non-denominational though there is a Roman Catholic cemetery in the community. The St. George Rural Cemetery is the second largest cemetery in Charlotte County after the St. Stephen Rural Cemetery. (source: Charlotte County Interments Index - New Brunswick Genealogical Society, ISBN: 978-0-9916887-1-5)
St. George Rural Cemetery is a late-19th century cemetery with over 3,800 known burials. The cemetery is situated on two parcels of land (PID# 01316637 & PID# 01218478) with an accumulative total of 19 acres of land. The oldest portion of the cemetery is located at the bottom of the hill (western section of PID# 01316637). St. George Rural Cemetery was established in the late 19th century as the St. Mark's/First Community Cemetery reached capacity. On April 18, 1876 the Act to Incorporate the St. George Rural Cemetery Company was passed by the Provincial Government. In 1963, the cemetery acquired the second parcel of land (PID# 01316637) from Mr. Burton Stewart. The cemetery is accessible from the end of Carleton Street (74 Carleton Street East/Extension). Among the important people buried at St. George Rural Cemetery are Hon. Arthur Hill Gillmor (1824-1903) and his son, Hon. Daniel Gillmor (1849-1918), both of whom were Senators of the Dominion of Canada. The cemetery has many gravestones that reflect the once thriving local granite industry and its associated businessmen such as Epps, Meating, Coutts, Milne and O'Brien. These men created and sustained the granite industry in St. George for more than 80 years. Their gravestones are monumental, ornate and finished in red, black and pink locally quarried granite. The cemetery is considered non-denominational though there is a Roman Catholic cemetery in the community. The St. George Rural Cemetery is the second largest cemetery in Charlotte County after the St. Stephen Rural Cemetery. (source: Charlotte County Interments Index - New Brunswick Genealogical Society, ISBN: 978-0-9916887-1-5)

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