The "Restin'" caches are a series that will take you to local cemeteries, places of great historical interest. From Pioneers and modern people these lovely places are full of interesting information. Please take your time look around, visit the past. The caches are easy to find, most of the time. Please respect where you are.
Albury Cemetery is co-located with Albury Church and is in Ontario, Canada, in Prince Edward County along the Rednersville Road. Its European origins date back to the Loyalists who settled here in the last part of the 1700s after fleeing the United States following the Revolution. Prior to the arrival of the Loyalists, it was an important hunting, fishing, and water route for the Mohawk nation.
The first burial was in 1812, a Levi B. son of John and Mary, with no recorded last name. The next burials were William Carter Allison and Ensign John Babcock in 1817, then Elizabeth Peack in 1825. Officially the Cemetery came into being with the gift of land in 1825 by the Peacks (Pecks) from their homestead on Lot 93. Family legend says it was Grandma Elizabeth who made the gift, which may be so because it was not completed until after her death, mostly likely by her husband James (Jacobus), and it certainly doesn't explain the burials prior to 1825.
Burials started outside the 1825 Gift area in 1841 (called Old Extension in the 1886-1899 Burial Records), although the area was not officially added until 1877. Additions were made to the Cemetery in 1877, 1885, 1889, 1898, 1917, 1924, and 1980.
Congratulations to Jiggs and Skyye53 for their shared FTF!!!