My summer 2020 project was to photograph and record the gravestones at Reston Cemetery on the Find a Grave website . I was amazed to find over 1400 names remembered in stone there and n o doubt many more are buried without a stone as well. Some engraving is almost illegible with time but luckily the right light and the list in the Sequel to Trails along the Pipestone helped complete the task. Historical birth, marriage and death records in Manitoba can be found on this website and were helpful to fill i
A lease was drawn on the NE 16-7-27 on September 14, 1897 and the title of the cemetery was formally registered in 1901. Apparently, early records were destroyed in a fire on the east side of main street in 1916. Some of the earliest stones are from 1894 and the first Boulton connection to this cemetery is mentioned in a previous post here . Anne Mossop , Jane McAulay and the Blackmore babies were among the first burials. The many infant graves remind us about the high infant mortality before the luxu
Arthur Owen Davies