12 years ago
Spencerville Store
Edwardsburgh/Cardinal, Ontario
Edwardsburgh/Cardinal, Ontario
Merrickville-Wolford, Ontario
Rideau Lakes, Ontario
Rideau Lakes, Ontario
Elizabethtown-Kitley, Ontario
Recent status | Abandoned |
Location # | 12253 |
Jelly Family Cemetery. Seven headstones remembering eight people. The children don't seem to have fared too well, the youngest predeceasing dad by 6 years.
The inscription on the toppled headstone reads:
Hannah Morrison died 1878 aged 24 yrs, 9 mons, 10 dys
This stone was upright in a June 2014 Google drive-by.
The three small stones are simply unreadable.
The County Atlas Project shows (in really big bold letters) "Jelly's Crossing" in the immediate area where this cemetery is. There's a nearby intersection named "Jellyby" which simply is too much of a coincidence for there not to be a link. The remnants of a railroad, shown on the old atlas, are still visible there today.
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The remnants are actually a fully signaled track...I was looking at the wrong spot on Google :-D....whoops
Not sure survival is the right word.....two of the headstones look to be outright replacements. :-)
That Cemetery is in a bad spot, usually once a month some drunk manages to miss the corner and rolls down in there. Its a wonder that they have survived this long.
3 years ago
More information about Jellby/Jelly's Crossing as a hamlet can be found here if anyone's interested! https://www.lynmuseum.ca/2016/11/15/jellyby-forgotten-hamlet-elizabethtown/