Faces of the dead gone but not forgotten
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- "The former part of the Common where now lie the ruins of an abandoned Catholic cemetery, should be one of Dartmouth's historic attractions.
It is noteworthy for a mounded stone burial vault, for its great number of Indian graves, and for an unmarked tomb of a titled lady said to have belonged to the Spanish nobility. The complete story of her suspicious death on the present Montagu farm at Lake Loon, and the excitement in Dartmouth during the subsequent inquest in 1846, Many of the town's early residents are buried there. The oldest headstone is for Andrew O'Neill, died August 14, 1832. The century-old graves of the Indians are identified by the oblong chunks of slate rock, laid in symmetrical rows in a separate section. Most Dartmouth Indians attended St. Peter's Church."at the time.
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