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St Francois du Lac cemetery

St Francois du Lac cemetery

Posted: 7 Mar 2009 1:40AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Letendre, Coll
Could anyone help me with finding the cemetery used for St. Francois du Lac, Yamaska. The parish records for 1899 state that the burial was "in the cemetery of this parish".

Re: St Francois du Lac cemetery

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 3:45AM GMT
Classification: Query
I, too, am interested in obtaining the cemetery used for St. Francois du Lac. Lacouture family, in particular.

Re: St Francois du Lac cemetery

Posted: 11 May 2012 5:52PM GMT
Classification: Query
We were there last summer and just looked at the photo again. The cemetery is right next to the church, a traditional church graveyard. However, if you're looking for something over 100 years ago, it may be gone. They "refresh" the cemeteries when no one pays on the plot anymore to make way for the lately departed. I was astonished at how small the cemeteries were for such a long usage. Unlike the US, where they buy more land and create annexes or new cemeteries, they just repurpose the one they have. The good news in this is that we have the wonderful Drouin records.

Re: St Francois du Lac cemetery - Repurposed graves - Question

Posted: 3 Dec 2012 5:28PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Dec 2012 5:29PM GMT
I just notice this thread because I'm going to be posting a related question for St-Bonaventure-d'Upton and now I have a question regarding this "refreshing".

Does anyone know what happens to the remains that were originally in the repurposed/refreshed grave?

Are they somehow disposed of or reburied in a mass, unmarked grave elsewhere in the churchyard?

What happens to the headstone assuming there had been one?

I never knew the Fre-Can Catholics did such things as "repurposing" the graves of the ancestors. You learn something new all the time.

Re: St Francois du Lac cemetery - Repurposed graves - Question

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 4:19PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gagean dit LaFleur, Cournoyer, St-Germain
You know, your post made me revisit this question. I can't recall where I heard that but just thinking about the ancestors - I don't know about you but my farmers and day laborers probably couldn't afford headstones. Many of the earliest immigrants to NH (1880-1900 or so) are buried in NH but not recorded on the more recent headstones. The state certificate says that's where they were buried, but there's no stone. I've been told and also have seen some metal markers and wooden markers, and they just wouldn't hold up in the elements. So maybe the bodies are there - decomposed and others later buried right there. I googled a bit and couldn't find anything definitive, but I will keep looking.
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