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Benjamin Peck Gravestone

Here lyeth the body of / Benjamin Peck senr who De / parted this Life, Octr 24th 1801 / in the 61st Year of his Age / Death in debt that Nature due / Which I have paid and so must you

Oak Grove Cemetery , Kentville, Kings, NS, Canada

Notes: The cemetery officially came in to existence in 1817 and was part of the farm of Benjamin Peck Jr., a second generation Planter. Three writers on Kentville’s early days, - Mabel G. Nichols, E. J. Cogswell and Leslie Eugene Dennison - mention that the half-acre of hill that became Oak Grove Cemetery was used as a burial ground before 1817. Cogswell refers to it as “the old oak burial ground”; Dennison says it was called “The Oaks”; and Nichols says it was once known as Oakhill Cemetery and some headstones there date from 1774.

It’s recorded in Eaton’s Kings County history that when Benjamin Peck Jr. sold his farm in 1817, his parents and several other persons were buried there. It was the half-acre, a knoll where his parents were buried, that Peck reserved as a public burial ground when the farm was sold.

from novanewsnow.com published September 18th, 2008. Photo credit to Sparechange63 of flickr.com

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