The Cookshire Cemeteries

The Cookshire Cemetery is in Cookshire Quebec located about 1 kilometer east of town center on Route 108. The cemetary has two sections, the Catholic section and the Protestant section.

The following is a partial listing of people who have stones in the Catholic section:

• Lantange, Clothilde, wife of Mackie JI Mackin, died 6/6/1900
• Mackie, Joseph, son of Mackie JI Mackin
• Mackin, Mackie JI (NP), died 9/16/1919

• Bailey, Georgianna Rosatie.Gertrude, born 1879, wife of Cyrus MacRae born 1876, died 1952
• Bailey, William Ward, born 4/14/1845, died 6/12/1918
• Booth, Grace W, born 1824, wife of James T.MacRae born 1871, died 1957
• Butler, John A (DDS), born 1873, died 1949
• Cascadden, Alice Jane, born 4/28/1874, died 10/21/1892
• Cascadden, Anne M, born 1/18/1869, wife of James A. McVety born 10/31/1865, died 6/13/1921
• Cascadden, Christina Adeline, born 1/25/1883, died 5/31/1963
• Cascadden, Ida Maud, born 1886, daughter of James Cascadden born 1832, died 1891
• Cascadden, James, born 1832, died 1914
• Cascadden, James, born 7/03/1879, died 7/26/1961
• Cascadden, John, born 11/01/1841, died 10/14/1925
• Cascadden, Jennie, born 1875, wife Albert MacRae born 1873, died 1956
• Cascadden, Margaret, born 8/17/1867, died 6/13/1941
• Church, Jememia, born 1851, wife of Henry Goff born 1850, died 1943
• Cleveland, Harmon Leslie, born 1887, died 1968
• Colvin, Mary, born 11/25/1831, wife of John MacRae born about 1823, died in January 1910
• Colvin, Rebecca, born 1844, wife of James Cascadden born 1832, died 1897
• Crawford, Letitia, born 2/07/1860, died 8/07/1950
• Cromwell, Annie, born 1863, wife of Wiliam S. Mackay born 1857, died 1953
• Cromwell [space reserved for] Isabella Cromwell, born 1868, wife of Rev. Edward Louge born 1861
• Cooper, Christina, born 10/21/1859, wife of William MacRae born ~1850, died 1/16/1936
• Drennan, Edwin, born 3/20/1887, died 8/19/1888
• Drennan, Harold, born 3/20/1887, died 8/19/1888
• Drennan, James Arthur, born 3/06/1879, died 1/25/1957
• Drennan, William Clarence, born 6/20/1881, died 2/14/1959
• Edwards, Joseph A, born 8/11/1868, died 10/21/1955
• Goff, A Graydon - Bud, born 1906, son of AH and FL Goff, died 1934
• Goff, Alonzo Hermon, born 1879, died 1964
• Goff, Henry F, born 1850, died 1926
• Learned, A A, born 1876, died 1956
• Logue, Rev. Edward, born 1861, died 1980
• Lowry, Catherine Ida Lowry, born 2/03/1871, died 3/03/1969
• Lowry, Christiana, born 9/18/1868, died 4/.23/1937
• Lowry, Esther Ann, born 1/18/1871, died 11/27/1951
• Lowry, Ruth, born 6/01/1828, died 3/08/1906.
• Mackay, Chester Lawrence, born 10/22/1883, died 2/03/1979
• Mackay, Elizabeth, born 1801, mother of James McVety born 4/3/1836, died 1894
• Mackay, Hugh, born 5/11/1825, died 2/01/1907
• Mackay, Lucina, born 1868, wife of David Williams and William Melrose, died 1953
• Mackay, Mary Ann, born 1855, wife of Thomas MacRae born 1852, died 1929
• Mackay, Mary E, born 1852, wife of Alexander McVety born 1842, died 1939 at 87 yrs.
• Mackay, Michael, born 2/20/1866, died 10/01/1952.
• Mackay, William, born 1843, died 1916
• Mackay, William S, born 1857, died 1946
• MacRae, A L (Capt), born 9/16/1900, died 12/3/1945 at 45 yrs
• MacRae, Albert E, born 1873, died 1945
• MacRae, Charles Gordon, born 1915, died 1991 [space reserved for brother Robert Murry MacRae, born 1921, and his wife Marjorie MacDonald]
• MacRae, Cyrus, born 1876, died 1962
• MacRae, Florence Lottie, born 1880, wife of Alonzo Goff born 1879, died 1963
• MacRae, Lawrence Wendell, born 1886, son of Thomas MacRae born 1852, died 1887
• MacRae, James T (DDS), born 1871, died 1934
• MacRae, Mabel G, born 1880, died 1930
• MacRae, Margaret, born 1845, wife of William Mackay born 1843, died 1920
• MacRae, Olive Gertrude, born 1883, wife of Harmon Leslie Cleveland born 1887, died 1967
• MacRae, Percy D, born 8/10/1881, son of William MacRae born ~1850, died 12/23/1882
• MacRae, Stella M, born 1883, died 1979
• MacRae, Thomas, born 1852, died 1925
• MacRae, William, LDS, born ~1850, died 1/11/1895 at 44 yrs.
• McVety, Alexander, born 5/21/1843, died 12/02/1930 at 88 yrs.
• McVety, Ann Jane, born about 1830, died 11/11/1889
• McVety, Charles Howard, born 9/01/1896, died 7/07/1988
• McVety, Emily Hester, born 10/2/1867, died 5/13/1900
• McVety, Emma, born 1877, daughter of James McVety born 4/3/1836, died 1890
• McVety, Harold Wilfred, born 9/27/1903, died 6/30/1992
• McVety, Jame, born 4/3/1836, died 9/25/1917
• McVety, James A, born 10/31/1865, died 3/26/1835
• McVety, James, born 6/12/1857, died 7/27/1932
• McVety, William, born about 1825, died 5/08/1910
• Morrison, Luvia Alberta, born in 1878, died 11/06/1901
• Orr, Ella Blanche, born ~1886, died 10/30/1963
• Scott, Eliza, born 1838, wife of James McVety born 4/3/1836, died 1897
• Suitor, Margaret, born 7/21/1846, died 7/06/1922
• Weston, Naomi Nancy, born 9/23/1850, died 12/12/1912

Note that records of the entire cemetery can be found at the Comptom Museum or by writing to the Megantic-Comptom Cemetery and Church Association, 147 Route 255 N, RR #1, Bury Quebec, J0B 1J0.