St. Marys Cemetery is a cemetery located in

St. Marys, Ontario St. Marys is a town in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the north branch of the Thames River and Trout Creek southwest of Stratford, and is surrounded by the Township of Perth South in Perth County, Ontario. St. ...

. It is most notable for being the burial place of

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(1874–1960). Opened in 1885 to relieve the full Protestant Cemetery, it is the resting place for Protestants in the area. A few plots were relocated to this cemetery from the old, which has since become a park. Other notables buried here: * George Graham, victim of the disaster in 1912 * James Brine of the

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Town of St. Marys: St. Marys Cemetery
{{Use dmy dates, date=February 2021 Cemeteries in Ontario Protestant Reformed cemeteries 1885 establishments in Ontario St. Marys, Ontario Cemeteries established in the 1880s

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