Cemeteries of Yarmouth, NS Canada

Main Street Cemetery



Photos by Robert F. Mckinnon


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Location:  Frost Park on Main Street, Yarmouth


The following images are of the only remaining headstones in the Main Street Cemetery. Once the cemetery of early settlers, now a very public park. Note the shapes and symbols typical of headstones of the early 1800's.

 
Eleazer Butler              Unknown          


 
                    Unknown              Mary Brown (wife of Benj.)


 
Capt Benjamin Brown              Mrs Lydia Butler      


 
              William Lewis              Waitstill & Chloe Lewis          


 
          Abraham Killam              Thomas Dane      


 
                  Unknown              James & Elizabeth Goudey


 
          Mrs Mary Gracie              Agnes, Mary, & Jennet Crowell


 
          Unknown              Almira Baker


The following cemetery listing of the Main Street Cemetery was compiled by Clement Doane prior to 1950 and available in NSARMS mfm #12073. Some of the names on the headstones displayed are not on his list.

Surname Given Name Birth Death Genealogy Notes
BROWN Benjamin
Mary
1738
1738
1798
1817
Benjamin Brown 1st.
Dau of _______ Haskell of Beverly, Mass.
BROWN Mary   1827 Wife of James 1st and dau of Nathaniel Potter of Ipswich.
CROWELL Agnes 1816 1827 Dau of Thomas and Catherine.
CROWELL Jennet 1825 1826 Dau of Thomas and Catherine.
CROWELL Mary 1823 1827 Dau of Thomas and Catherine.
DANE Thomas 1752 Apr 9,1828 Thomas Dane 1st of Yarmouth.
DURKEE Phineas 1730 Nov 5,1801 Phineas 1st of Yarmouth. Old Zion Cemetery, Main St. West side.
GOUDEY James
Elizabeth
1745
1749
1829
1831
James Goudey 1st.
Dau of Joseph Potter.
GRACIE Mrs. Mary 1756 1801 Wife of George and dau of Daniel Jones of Boston.
KILLAM Abraham 1760 1800 Son of John 1st.
LEWIS William 1791 1796 Son of Waitstill and Chloe.
LOVITT Sarah 1805 1828 Dau of Israel of Andrew 1st and wife of Daniel McKenzie.
MATTENLY Mrs Mary 1786? 1810  
MACCONNELL David 1774 1827 David 1st of Yarmouth.
MORRELL Edward 1809 1871 Son of Moses.
MORRELL Emily 1828 1894 Dau of Jonathan Patten of Richard 1st.
SOLLOWS John 1784 1818 Son of Willoughby 1st of John 1st.
WALKER John 1733 1805 John Walker 1st of Yarmouth.
WALKER Lydia 1730 1825