Sandhills Baptist Cemetery
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Sandhills Baptist Cemetery

Also known as Sandy Hills Cemetery , Woolwich Baptist Cemetery

Woolwich Township, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada

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  • Get directions 474 Sandy Hills Drive
    Woolwich Township, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario Canada
    Coordinates: 43.64764, -80.53687
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The Sandhills Baptist Cemetery is located in a rural setting 6 km/3.5 miles north of Elmira, Ontario, Canada. A Baptist church and burial ground were established at this site around 1852 and served residents of the local farming community for a few decades. The Baptist congregation disbanded around 1890 and the church building was eventually demolished.



The earliest known burial in the cemetery was in 1852, and the latest, in 1925. Eventually, existing gravestones were moved from their gravesites and rearranged in two rows at the back of the cemetery. Although many of the stones are now badly eroded and illegible, a document produced by the Waterloo Region Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society provides the inscription of most of the stones (as transcribed in 1989). A few stones are broken and/or unreadable, giving no or little information about the deceased person. Many of the inscriptions are in German, reflecting the language spoken by the inhabitants of the area.



The cemetery is maintained by the Township of Woolwich.



The Sandhills Baptist Cemetery is located in a rural setting 6 km/3.5 miles north of Elmira, Ontario, Canada. A Baptist church and burial ground were established at this site around 1852 and served residents of the local farming community for a few decades. The Baptist congregation disbanded around 1890 and the church building was eventually demolished.



The earliest known burial in the cemetery was in 1852, and the latest, in 1925. Eventually, existing gravestones were moved from their gravesites and rearranged in two rows at the back of the cemetery. Although many of the stones are now badly eroded and illegible, a document produced by the Waterloo Region Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society provides the inscription of most of the stones (as transcribed in 1989). A few stones are broken and/or unreadable, giving no or little information about the deceased person. Many of the inscriptions are in German, reflecting the language spoken by the inhabitants of the area.



The cemetery is maintained by the Township of Woolwich.



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  • Added: 28 Oct 2013
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2517863