Matthew Farfan
A number of dedicated volunteers from the Compton Historical Society have recommenced work on a pioneer cemetery on de la Brière Road, near Coaticook, the Stanstead Journal reported this week. Work had already been carried out by the group last year, the paper reported, including removing garbage (the site had been used as an illegal dump for years!), cleaning up brush, and eliminating rotten wood and barbed wire fences. With the help of a farmer next door, much of the garbage has already been hauled away.
Time and neglect have taken their toll on the tombstones, however. Many of them, according to the Journal, date back to the early 1800s, and some are no longer decipherable. The material of choice for many of the headstones seems to have been soapstone, an inexpensive, but not very resilient stone.
The volunteers, who plan to re-set the tombstones in concrete on the appropriate grave sites, have discovered that the name of this nearly-lost cemetery is the Kinney Cemetery.
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