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THE SHERK FAMILY CEMETERY:
lot 12, Con.
HUMBERSTONE:
2.
N.S. Of # 3 hi gh way .
)
This
middle
very old cemetery stands back from the highway in the
just east of Sherk road, and some
of a farmers fi e ld,
four hundred or so feet back from the Garrison.
When visited
in Oct.
with sumach bushes and
of
1981, it
was
completely overgrown
vines of evry discription, so much so
that _the fence that surrounds .it is almost
unrecognizable.
There was only one small stone in the u pri ght position, readable;
and about six other sma l l markers of actual bolders.
On the
ground there was
six other stones that were readable.
They were: : :
Michael Sherk
son of Christian
b.
Christian Sherk
Jesse G·eady
son
b.
(1816)d.
d.
l'1ar.
Nov.
9, 1863/14yrs
15, 1874.
58 yrs.
of John & Barbara G eady
b.
(1830)d.
Aug.
6, 1865.
35 yrs.
Sherk
b.
(1837)d.
J-uly
:5' 1887.
50
yrs .
ELIZA Sherk
b.
(1819)d.
Feb.
3, 1907.
88
yrs.
David
wife of Christian
Hardy Daniel
Fanny
dght.
b. Apr.
b.
of John & Barbara
20,
1894. d. Apr. 21, 1894
( 1840)
Geady
:
ct . Sept ·.
This is the
standing.
3-., 1858. aged 18yrs
only readable stone
�THE SHERK CEMETERY:::
DAVID SHERK
d.
Christian Sherk
July 5,
From the
1887.
d. Feb. 3,
aged
1907.
History of Humberstone;
50
aged
This should read:
Mar.
yrs.
88 yrs.
Eliza Sherk wife
Christian Sherk
d.
Micharl Sherk
son
of Christian:
Jesse Geady
son
Of John & Barbara Geady d.
Fanny
dght.
Lydia
wife of Peter Geady:
Hardy Daniel
son
15, 1874.
of Christi.wn
aged 58.
d.
Nov.
9,
of John & Barbara Geady
d.
Mar.
of Daniel & Clara Robins:
i4yrs.
1863.
Aug.
:d.
1865.
6,
Sept.
35yrs.
3, 1858/18yr
29, 1849. aged 31
b.
Apr. 20, 1894.
d.
Apr.
21,
1894.
yrs.
�
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Louis McDermott Collection
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