The Cemetery next door.

We occasionally receive requests regarding information about family members from the past who may or may not be buried in the cemetery.

Please be aware that this is not, and never has been, a Presbyterian graveyard, despite what you may read online.

We do have a list of some of the occupants but it is limited to the graves that were legible in 1979. The Township of Front of Yonge maintains the cemetery now.

The land it is on was the location for a Wesleyan Methodist church, built on property belonging to a John Kincaid in 1848. This church is  long gone although you can still see the space it occupied in the middle where there are no graves. The story goes that on warm summer Sundays, the Presbyterians and the Methodists would open the church windows and try to out-sing each other. Truth or not?? Quite likely!

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St Paul’s started a new era on Sunday, 25th September, 2022 when we officially became a two point charge with First Presbyterian Church, Brockville, with Rev. Marianne Emig Carr as our minister.

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Built in 1876, St Paul’s has served its community continuously for 148 years.  As one of a rapidly diminishing number of rural churches, it stands as a well-preserved example of that period’s construction and design.
Many features of the original church remain.

•    A handsome pump organ, used until 1987 and still played periodically
•    Black ash pews, made of local wood.
•    Black ash pulpit, and wainscoting
•    Slate roof
•    Collection plates and smaller items

 

•    At the back of the sanctuary, are the woodstoves which heated the church. Built by Chown and Cunningham of Kingston, these stoves were probably original ( not authenticated) but have been here at least 100 years, by witness. Each and every Sunday, summer and winter, one member of the congregation had to build up the heat in the church before service. In the late 1980’s, the church converted to oil.

•    Exterior remains of the sheds used to park buggies.

Changes over the years include;
•    Vestry addition 1895
•    Kitchen annex  1954
•    Centennial year additions-pulpit fall, collection plates, communion table runner, etc.
•    Entrance vestibule