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Johnston Hist

42.60857° 82.03531°

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Johnston Cemetery
42.60857° 82.03531°
Lot 7 Con. 13 Gore
12626 Cider Mill Line
aka Johnson Cemetery aka Restored Johnston Cemetery

01651
JOHNSTON CEMETERY
MUNICIPALITY OF CHATHAM KENT
LOT 7 CONCESSION 13
12626 CIDER MILL LINE
CAMDEN, TWP OF
KENT, COUNTY OF

Please note that the following diagram may pertain to the Stonehouse Cemetery as well, due to it's described position. However, other things like the angle of the cemetery and it's layout make it seem more like Johnston.

Web site visitor Katie Knudsen writes of the history of Johnston Cemetery...

Quote "Further to the Johnston cemetery. I recall my father taking us to this cemetery probably in the 1950s. At that time it was along the river I think on a hill. William Johnston came from the USA and they had a mill and the area was called Johnston's Corners and probably were the founders of Croton. His son James H Johnston married Catherine Macdonald whose family were Baldoon settlers.They are buried in the Johnston cemetery.They had a large family .Their daughter Helen married John Duncan and they lived in Thamesville. Other children were Louis Napoleon ,William Newton and Sofia. A couple of sons became veterinarians I think." End of Quote

We do also know that Johnston Cemetery was involved in a court case at one time...

From KOGS Newsletter Kn-64-98

CEMETERY DISPUTE from the Dresden Times of February 18th, 1904

The case of Smith vs. Logan is an interesting dispute over possession of a cemetery in Camden, that will occupy the attention of Judge Bell at Chatham to-day.

In the year 1868 and for many years before, one Joseph Wright was the owner of part of Lot 7, concession 13, Camden Township. On the first day of December, 1868, the said Joseph Wright sold the property to George Wright, save one-half acre reserved for a burying ground. On the 11th day of June, 1868, George Wright, who had owned the property for over twenty years, sold the same to George Wilson for $1,200, excepting the burying ground, which he did not own. On the 11th day of January 1889, George Wilson sold to the defendants, Albert and Ella Logan. Upon the death of Joseph Wright his title to the half-acre lot used as a cemetery passed to his children, and Mrs. Logan is one of the children.

The plaintiff owns the adjoining farm and claims the cemetery by right of possession. M. Wilson & Co. for the plaintiffs, J. B. Rankin contra.