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                  <text>OLD

OJ? WILLOUGHBY 'l'01H&gt;l3HI.P
Miller 1963

C.2.:YE'l'SRj;ES
l.ï¿½.

1. T01'1i Jc';COï¿½Dli &amp;: DELL CEI\CE.:TERY (See Churchs).
2.

Large f!. c !t.. CemeterI at Snyder. Also
â€¢.

3. The WEAVER
Â·

4.

one

opposite the United Church in Snyder,
Cemetery

on

on

which

tb.e Sodom Road
was opened in

the Weaver Road west of the Sodom Road.

The Old Gonder Cemetery on the old Gonder fa.rm, which is now
owned by the I,:ayor of Fort Erie, 1Vir. 'I'eal (1963).
lviost Qt the
â€¢'
stones here are broken.

Â§. The old Miller :f'a:rily cemetery

about 20 graves and most of the

6. The Hï¿½rsey Fam11I Cemetery
ï¿½dller Road.

1851.

on

My Grandfather,

the Ives farm, where there
stones are broken.

on

Graves
farms.

in fence

corners

on

the

are

the hill on the' ni:&gt;rth side of the
Jacob Killer; gave this road in

7. The Lapp Oemâ€¢tecr on the Detenbeck Road which side road
given to the Townshï¿½p by the early pioneer Isaa c La:m2.
8,

1845.

Charles

we.a

Wale and Albert Weaver

'"" 'I'here"were three early farrilies of 1vï¿½illers who settled in Bertie
and Willoughby Twps.
'fhe Andrew Miller of Eiller1 a Creek, myÂ·
ancestor b. (1766-1843) graves were moved from under a tree on
.the property and placed in Andrew i!-ï¿½iller Jr, b. (1799-1862) plot
at St. John's Anglican Church Cemetery, R1dgemount. Our branch' a
graves are here including the Laur ie and Ryson
Audï¿½!'-!:ï¿½ï¿½:riï¿½.
1
z.1v1, fi1iiller1 s grandfather was Jacob iVilller,
-

1Viay

24, 1972

Audrey Miller Laurie

�C:cowland ï¿½

Lyons Creek

C5rourlanci

Young:

Crowland

Byer(Boyer)

Willoughby

Gonder

Willoughby

Lapp

Willoughby

Hershey

Willoughby

Weaver

Willoughby

Mcï¿½

Willoughby

Credie

Miller
Lundy'

Willoughby
u

Lane

NiagaraÂ·Â· Falls

Lapman

Stamford

Dell

Willoughby

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