The Stephens Family Burial Grounds are located in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada on the east side of Bayview Avenue just south of the intersection of Stonehaven Avenue and Bayview Avenue. The original address for the house located near the burial grounds was on Second Street, now called Bayview Avenue, between Newmarket and Aurora.

Around 1981, the house was being was being used as a type of "group home" for developmentally challenged men until such time as they could move on to more permanent living and work arrangements. At that time the house was referred to as Maplewood Lodge. A drawing of the house was done by Al Calverly, a social worker at Pine Ridge.

The burial grounds are located on what was the Stephens Family homestead and are just west of where the family home and buildings were located. The Stephens family were descendants of the United Empire Loyalists who had been granted the land two hundred years previously, having moved to Canada from the United States after the American Revolution.

The house, now demolished, stood on two acres of land dotted with trees and flowering shrubs. There were lilac bushes that surrounded a big vegetable garden close to the apple orchard. The house was really two houses. The farmhouse, that faced Bayview Avenue, was over a hundred years old in 1974. Another house built at the back of the lot faced east towards the fields. Both houses were connected by a dark stained wooden french door with frosted glass panes.

There are reputed to be others buried on the homestead lands with many of them having been moved to the burial grounds from other parts of the homestead fields. In 1974, it was reported by an Ontario Government cemetery inspector to the people that were renting the house, that there are 32 individuals buried in the burial grounds. The tenants rented the house from the York Regional Police Association who had bought the house and a large acreage as an investment from the Stephens family who were the original owners.

It was the Stephens family who lay in the pioneer burial ground in the orchard, although then there was just one complete headstone, for Shadrach and Elizabeth Stephens. Far out in the field, at the back of the house, by the curving bank of the creek that ran through it, was another memorial stone, with the names: Daniel Prior and Lydia Stephens. Why the gravestone was there, is a mystery. Some speculate that they were buried there in a place that was special to them. In later years, when the land was filled with huge houses and the fields and creek were gone, the headstone was moved to be with the rest of the family buried in the orchard. The burial grounds are now surrounded by a black wrought iron fence.