Cloyne Pioneer Cemetery
By Mary Kelly

For the better part of a year now, a few members of the Cloyne and District Historical Society have been trying to track down who might be buried in the pioneer burying ground in Cloyne. It is the wish of the society and the land o' Lakes Garden Club, who are partners in this restoration, to try to identify those interred here with as much accuracy as possible. A fire in the Methodist church office destroyed the records between the 1860s and 1899.

Some months ago, an article appeared in this paper outlining the details of the project, along with a list of those whom we thought might have been buried in the cemetery. A further check of the list removed a few names and added a few more. That corrected list appears here.

Because we are hoping to put up a permanent marker in the cemetery this summer, we would like to draw the project to a close. Just before we do that, though, we would like you to look at the list one more time and to double check your family history. Is there anyone in your family who was buried there? Would you have a name and a death date? If so, please contact [email protected] or call Mary Kelly at 613-336-6806 or Eileen Flieler at 613-336-9593.

We know that we have only 40 of the 80 people believed to be in this cemetery. Can you help us find any of the others?
Bailey, Myrtle June 1900
Bauder, Isabella May July 1909
Benn September 1906
Benny, Eliza (nee Bell) April 1922
Benny, Mrs. October 1910
Brown, George Washington November 1934
Cornwell, Margaret (nee Wallace) October 1910
Cuddy, Annie Effie (nee Wickware) October 1921
Cummings, Rilla Priscilla June 1899
Curtis, John December 1912
Deline, Minnie (nee Levier) February 1910
Doidge, Christiana Esther August 1863
Frasier, Abraham H. March 1905
Frasier, Henry September 1906
Hall, Edward J. August 1866
Hawley, Ida Marion November 1918
Head, Mary October 1907
Head, Stanley Marsell July 1911
Infant child February 1905
Johnson, Muriel Lucille July 1916
Lake, Caroline January 1923
Lake, N. Daly March 1914
Levear, John October 1904
McCausland, John June 1909
McGarvey, Catherine October 1908
McGarvey, Freddie March 1911
McGarvey, John Briton February 1915
McGarvey, Joseph December 1916
McGarvey, Wm. Edmund September 1913
MacGregor, Eva A. (nee Perry) November 1921
McMillen, Hattie (nee Benny) April 1906
Roy, James E. August 1913
Roache, John March 1918
Roache, Ellen (nee Hall) March 1918
Spencer, Horace Wilton July 1914
Thompson, Abigail May 1907
Wayne, Adrian Bernice June 1919
Wayne, Mrs. Jessie September 1921
Welsh, L. Armuila March 1906
Wilson, Arthur Allen January 1910
Wise, Annie (nee Hawley) October 1910
Wise, Elsie Catherine March 1916