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Melville United Church Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 12/13/2018
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Melville United Church


Please be respectful at the site and NO night caching. There is nothing near or on a headstone. Happy caching you may find the container but to relative and sign the log will be...interesting.


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Church / Denomination: Melville United Church, originally Presbyterian.

The church is well documented and dates back to the late 1820s when Scottish Highlanders settled in Lobo Township. The first congregation was organized in 1849 and a small frame church was built a few miles east of the present site. In 1860, the little church was taken down, loaded onto wagons and moved west to the village of Inkerman (Ivan.) The congregation outgrew the building and in 1886 the present building was built.

Recent years have seen an expansion to the existing structure


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Registered to Ivan Cemetery Board. From The Heritage of Lobo: "On June 30, 1854, Walter Clendinin of Norfolk County bought the land for Ivan Cemetery Lot 12 Con 8 originally sold for taxes. It involved 30 acres along the east side of the lot, paralleling the Nairn Road and along the north side paralleling the 9th concession.

It was then sold to John Brown later on September 18, 1855 John Brown sold the property to the Presbyterian Church." "On July 19, 1859 Mary Ann McQueen, daughter of John McQueen, was the first burial in Ivan Cemetery. The oldest tombstone in the cemetery is that of Archibald Johnson who died in 1821.

However, he had originally been buried in the Johnson family cemetery on the 5th concession and later moved to Ivan when that cemetery was abandoned.


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