First King Baptist Cemetery
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First King Baptist Cemetery

Also known as Hammertown Baptist Cemetery

Hammertown, York Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada

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  • Get directions 15075 12th Concession Rd (11 Conc, Lot 26)
    Hammertown, York Regional Municipality, Ontario Canada
    Coordinates: 43.93624, -79.73777
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First King Baptist Cemetery is an inactive, small, rural, mid to late 19th-century community cemetery located at 15075 12th Concession, on the east side immediately south of the 17th Sideroad. Measuring 0.5 acre at 165 ft wide by 132 ft deep, it is situated at the northwest section of Concession 11 Lot 19, in the one time community of Hammertown. Now owned by Township of King, Regional Municipality of York.



Its remaining markers and monuments of simple limestone and upright granite columns, arranged predominantly in 2 opposing clusters in an open, park like, grassed landscape, evoke the intent and care chosen as the place where living families and friends, in a calming environment, could remember their dead. Remains of an 30' by 40' foundation preserves the memory of the one time First King Baptist Church.



Contains the burial site of early Scottish settlers of the one time community of Hammertown. It was first created as the family burial ground by the property owner and Scottish immigrant Donald Kennedy and his wife Mary circa 1839. The property was the site of the one time First King Baptist Church, destroyed by fire circa 1970. The approximately 23 markers and headstones, their inscriptions dating from 1839 to1945 commemorating the approximately 31 burials of the Kennedy's and their extended family, several who were fellow Scottish immigrants from the Isle of Islay, Argyle County, stand witness to those families and individuals that first settled the once thriving community.



First King Baptist Cemetery is an inactive, small, rural, mid to late 19th-century community cemetery located at 15075 12th Concession, on the east side immediately south of the 17th Sideroad. Measuring 0.5 acre at 165 ft wide by 132 ft deep, it is situated at the northwest section of Concession 11 Lot 19, in the one time community of Hammertown. Now owned by Township of King, Regional Municipality of York.



Its remaining markers and monuments of simple limestone and upright granite columns, arranged predominantly in 2 opposing clusters in an open, park like, grassed landscape, evoke the intent and care chosen as the place where living families and friends, in a calming environment, could remember their dead. Remains of an 30' by 40' foundation preserves the memory of the one time First King Baptist Church.



Contains the burial site of early Scottish settlers of the one time community of Hammertown. It was first created as the family burial ground by the property owner and Scottish immigrant Donald Kennedy and his wife Mary circa 1839. The property was the site of the one time First King Baptist Church, destroyed by fire circa 1970. The approximately 23 markers and headstones, their inscriptions dating from 1839 to1945 commemorating the approximately 31 burials of the Kennedy's and their extended family, several who were fellow Scottish immigrants from the Isle of Islay, Argyle County, stand witness to those families and individuals that first settled the once thriving community.



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  • Added: 31 Aug 2017
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2650123