The Grove Hill Cemetery

The Grove Hill Cemetery is located just outside of Sawyerville Quebec on Grove Hill Rue. There are quite a few child graves; Diptherea was not treatable in those days and Sawyerville lost many children in the year of 1879.

The following is a partial listing of people who have stones in this cemetery:

• Colvin, Ellen, born 9/09/1836, died 3/08/1922
• Colvin, Esther, born 182, died 4/2/1891
• Colvin, Katherin, wife of John MacRae, died 2/25/1906 at 65 years old
• Charles Wesley Cooper, born 5/23/1875, died 5/09/1896
• John Cooper, born 11/20/1834, died 5/20/1911
• John Cooper, born 10/08/1870, died 5/23/1873
• Cromwell, Henry H, son of Tom and Liz, died 1/13/1883 at 4 years, 6 months, 3 days old
• Cromwell, Mary Anne, born ~1818, died 1/06/1888 at 70 years old
• Cromwell, Thomas, born ~1832, died 8/25/1899 at 67 years old
• Cromwell, William Alexander, born 1870, son of William Cromwell born 1844, died 1872
• Cromwell, William Henry, born 1886, son of William Cromwell born 1844, died 1887
• Cromwell, William A died 10/22/1951 at 49 years old [?]
• Cromwell, William, born 1849, died 1888
• Hill, Rebecca, born 1845, wife of William Cromwell born 1844, died 1902
• Holmes, Samuel, born ~1810, died 12/27/1871
• Kinnear, Elizabeth J, born 5/23/1838, wife of Thomas Cromwell, born ~1832, died 5/11/1926
• Mackay, Christiana, born 10/13/1874, died 2/27/1879 at 4 years old
• Mackey, Thomas Jr., born 5/8/1864, died 3/11/1891 at 26 years, 10 months, 3 days [his stone says he was appointed Trustee of the Royal Templars]
• MacRae, Christina, born 3/?//1868, died 7/23/1879 at 11 years, 4 months old
• MacRae, Luella, born 12/23/1871, died 7/9/1879 at 7 years, 2 months, 18 days old
• MacRae, James Edmund, born 11/28/1875, died 7/10/1897 at 3 years, 7 months, 13 days old
• MacRae, John, died 1/15/1931 at 88 years old
• MacRae, Mary Jane, daughter of William and Mary Ann, died 5/4/1873 at 18 years old
• MacRae, William, born 11/15/1873, died 8/7/1879 at 5 years old
• MacRae, William, born ~1815, died 7/9/1887 at 71 years, 10 months
• McVety, Elizabeth, born ~1843, died 10/28/1920
• Riddle, Elizabeth J, wife of William A. Cromwell, died 6/28/1903 at 36 years old [?]

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.