St Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery (original site), Zurich, Hay Township, Huron County, ON, Canada
Notes:
This monument near the public school in Zurich, Ontario marks the spot of the original cemetery of St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church. In the early 1920s, the headstones at this site were gathered and placed inside this cairn. Eventually the monument was sealed in an effort to deter vandals. No map of plot sites is known to exist. The church does have a record of burials which was translated by a kind visitor from Germany in recent years. The translated record has been reproduced below in its entirety.
UPDATE March 2012 - The cairn pictured above has been removed. Efforts to ensure recognition, restoration and remembrance are being undertaken at present by the 150th Anniversary Committee of the St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Zurich, Ontario.
BALTZLE, Heinrich Heinrich Baltzle, born in Innsheim Lower Alsace, France. Died December 25 1863 7pm of pneumonia after one day of illness aged 44 years 6 months 23 days. Buried December 27 1863.
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BAUER, Georg Heinrich Georg Heinrich Bauer, died October 21, 1875 of bowel cancer aged 20 years 4 months. Buried October 23, 1875.
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BAUER, Susanna Susanna Bauer, daughter of Karl Bauer and his wife Lydia nee Bachtel, in Zurich, Hay Township died on August 26, 1860 of debilitating dehydration aged 9 weeks. Buried on August 27, 1860.
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BECHER, Ludwig Viktor Ludwig Viktor Becher born in Bern, Switzerland. Married Anna Catharina Goebel. Died November 30, 1880 aged 71 years 3 months 21 days. Buried December 2, 1880.
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BENDER, Child Not baptized. Died September 24, 1870 at 4 weeks. Buried September 25, 1870 without clergy.
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BENDER, Henriette Henriette Bender died February 15, 1877 of diphtheria aged 6 years. Buried February 18, 1877.
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BLOCH, Julius Julius Bloch married Margarethe Seibert. Died October 15, 1878 of consumption at age 77 years 2 months 5 days. Buried October 17, 1878.
BOHN, Georg Ludwig Georg Ludwig Bohn, son of Hellmuth Bohn and his wife Ann Yungblut born in Auburn. Died June 24, 1886 of strep age 1 year 2 months 27 days.
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BRENNER, Jacob Jacob Brenner, born in Waterloo in 1836. Died November 5, 1882 of gangrene from an open foot aged 46 years. Buried November 6, 1882.
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BRUDER, Jakob Ludwig Jakob Ludwig Bruder, son of Hermann Bruder and Rosine Walz, died August 28, 1884 at 7 years 3 days. Dragged by a horse. Died the next day. Buried August 30, 1884.
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BRUNNER, Catharina Catharina Brunner, daughter of Jacob Brunner, died October 28, 1864 7am of convulsions aged 8 months 12 days. Buried October 30, 1864.
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BURKHOLDER, Child Not baptized. Died beginning of August 1870 aged 2 hours. Buried without clergy.
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CAUG, Catherine Catherine Bauer nee Caug. Wife of G.H. Bauer died on June 27, 1865 of Pulmonary tuberculosis aged 54 years 8 months 24 days.
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CLAUSIUS, Johannes Johannes Clausius died January 2, 1870 aged 51 years. Buried January 5, 1870.
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CREIMANN, Emma Erna Emma Erna Creimann, daughter of Charles Creimann and Catharina Wilhelm, died May 30, 1865 of smallpox aged 1 year and 16 days. Buried June 1, 1865.
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DEBBERN, Johann Peter Johann Peter Debbern born in Wendorf Schleswig Holstein. Married Dorothea Stelk. Emigrated to Canada in 1858. Died January 11, 1882 5pm at age 73 years 3 months 5 days. Suffered for 10 years rheumatoid arthritis.
DECHER, George Friedrich George Friedrich Decher, son of Lorenz Decher and his wife Maria nee Kleinsteiber, died November 22, 1880 of consumption aged 1 year 2 months 21 days. Buried November 24, 1880.
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DEICHERT, Child A child of Nikolaus and Kunigunde Deichert. Died March 23, 1876 aged 6 months. Buried March 25, 1876.
DEICHERT, Elisabeth Elisabeth Deichert,daughter of Peter Deichert and his wife Lisette (nee Bauer), born in Zurich. Died May 20 1864 1am aged 5 years 9 days of scarlet fever with brain fever following on week illness. Buried May 22 1864.
DEICHERT, Georg Heinrich The burial of Georg Heinrich Deichert was not included in the burial records of the original cemetery. Georg Heinrich's baptism was recorded and the church archive cabinet even has a copy of his baptismal certificate displayed in it. For reasons unknown there are no written records in the church of deaths/burials for the years 1868 and 1869. When the cairn was opened up in the autumn of 2011 and the headstones housed within it were revealed, date of death was then confirmed.
