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McClatchie Family Cemetery |
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Located in Hinchinbrooke about 200 yards
north of First Concession Road and just west of Herdman Side Road, the
McClatchie Family Cemetery is situated on a small hill over looking the adjacent
fields. The cemetery can be accessed through the nearby farmyard.
James
McClatchie, Sr. and his wife Lucinda Reed, first settled on this property in
September 1810. Prior to settling here, James had pioneered both in the
Dewittville and Georgetown areas. McClatchie
was a carpenter from Ayrshire, Scotland and he emigrated to Canada is 1801.
Lucinda, whose father William Reed had come from Massachusetts a few years
earlier, and James met and married two years after he arrived.
| Stone | Name | Description |
| 1 | James McClatchie, Sr, | Died Nov. 3, 1857 Aged 77 Years A Native of Scotland |
| 2 | Lucinda Reed | Wide of James McClatchie Died March 28, 1835 Aged 53 Years A Native of Massachusetts |
| 3 | Rev. John McClatchie | Died Feb. 11, 1850 Aged 35 |
| 4 | John W. McClatchie | Son of John & Almira McClatchie Died March 28, 1867 Aged 20 Years & 2 months |
| 5 | Sarah McClatchie | Daughter of Sarah & James McClatchie March 9, 1875 Aged 1 month & 3 days |
| 6 | Samuel McClatchie | Son of S. & L . McClatchie Died Feb 19, 1836 Aged 28 Years |
| 7 | Broken Stone | Difficult to read, but date may be 1833 |
| 8 | Unreadable Stone |
Sources:
Sellar, Robert:. The history of the county of Huntingdon and of the seigniories
of Chateauguay & Beauharnois , 1888.
Rogers, Gerry: Notes about the James McClatchie Cemetery, 1970.
© May 2003, Ken Steffenson
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