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Jelly Cemetery

Abandoned Cemetery in Elizabethtown-Kitley, Ontario, Canada

Jun 15 2015

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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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4 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/

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9 years ago

The remnants are actually a fully signaled track...I was looking at the wrong spot on Google :-D....whoops

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9 years ago

No pics of the old railroad remnants?

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9 years ago

Not sure survival is the right word.....two of the headstones look to be outright replacements. :-)

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9 years ago

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.