Last
Updated October 2004
The
following funeral homes can now (April 1 03) be visited on line
Brenan's Select Community
Funeral Home (various NB locations)
St. George Funeral Home
MacDonald
Funeral Home, 20 Marks Street, St. Stephen
S.O. Mehan
& Son Funeral Home, Ltd., 23 Main St., St. Stephen
Eells Funeral Home,
Grand Manan, NB
Scott-Wilson Funeral Home 26 Church St Calais Maine 04619 Phone: (207) 454- 3141 - Not online but Charlotte County Residents utilize this home.
Other New Brunswick Funeral Homes On Line
A transcript of St. Stephen Rural Cemetery, done by the Charlotte Branch of the NB Genealogical Society, lists the names on the stones. However, the actual cemetery records maintained by the Superintendent, are listed under who bought the lot originally and then those interred there. There is not an alpha list of who is buried in the cemetery in the official records. You have to know what lot they are buried in. There is a map and if you can get the number of the lot then theSuperintendent can give you the names of who is buried there! Clear as mud!! Yes, there are a lot of people buried in "Rural" that don't have their names on a stone. The current Superintendent is Robert Crawford, Saint Stephen Rural Cemetery, 7 Maplewood Court St. Stephen, NB E3L 2V3
Care of Cemeteries (Some
Guidelines) - Added 15
July 2000
Gravestone
Care & FAQs - Added Oct 2004
Cemetery
Preservation - off site
link Added
Oct 2004
Charlotte County Cemeteries List- Updated Oct 2004
When searching for a graveyard in the woods where you know it is in the general area, stand back and take a good look. If you see any trees out of proportion, by being taller than the rest, start your search there. For 40 years I have been locating old cemeteries and have found this to work in many instances. Loggers will rarely cut a tree around a graveyard. Carolyn Ballantyne in Maine
If you find that you have a hard time reading the headstones try this. The only thing we had with us was a spray bottle of water and a camera. We cleaned off the headstone as best we could. It was very hot and muggy that day, and we noticed that as we sprayed the headstone with water, it took longer for the indentations of the letters to dry than the rest of the stone and we could read what they said. My husband got ready with his camera, and I sprayed the stone; before it could dry, my husband took a picture. The pictures turned out great, and you could really read the stone. We tried this many times, and it worked every time. ( I found this on a discussion list somewhere, Marilyn)