Elmwood Cemetery – Perth, Ontario

A cemetery is a peaceful place

On the way home from my client's house, I popped into a near-by Cemetery. I was looking for the names of the people who built our house around 1986 (Mr. & Mrs. Love). They weren't there. The 2nd owner is in the cemetery in Perth. The previous owners (3rd) moved back to the UK to care for ailing parents. We are the 4th.

I've lived in newer and older homes. Our Toronto house was very old, over 150 years at the time, that was the one where I grew up. Our current one is an interesting bungalow.

I heard a story that the second owner (Mr. Lehmann) accidentally shot himself, whilst cleaning his gun. He is buried in the Perth cemetery.

Second owners of our house.
Anna lives in town.

I went into Perth and went into the Cemetery there. I found out, through ancestry.ca, where Mr. Lehmann was buried. I realized that while I was tracking hubby's family, I could search for anyone there. I knew the approximate date of his death, when the house changed hands, and found out more!

Perth's Elmwood Cemetery is very old, since the town was established in 1816. You can search for a particular marker, out of the 9797 plots. It's amazing what people are recording.
I found Mr. Lehmann's marker easily.

We used to visit Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. I remember taking Caitlin when she was wee, < 2 years old, and telling off a kid who was chasing the peacocks.
We regularly check out hubby's markers in Chesterville, just to make sure they are in good repair. The cemetery in Delta is amazing, too. We visited Chaffeys Lock cemetery in summer. We ought to go visit Mom and Dad's plots in Torrance sometime, perhaps in spring.