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SKELETONS WERE FOUND
Workmen Excavate Coffins While Digging Trench
Interred Years Ago In Long Forgotten Cemetery On Mill Street-Bones Will Be Reburied.
[Welland Telegraph, 7 November 1913]
Buried about three feet beneath the surface two coffins containing human bones were found by workmen excavating a trench for a water service at the west end of Mill Street this morning.
The coffin has almost completely decayed and the bones within had the appearance of being in the earth for many years. A few buttons were found in one of the coffins and were bright and shiny. The skeletons were carefully removed and will be reburied in other boxes as near to their former resting place as possible. It is impossible to tell just how long ago burial was made but a tombstone on a lot not far distant bears the date 1861.
It is thought that the property was used as a cemetery many years ago by the Methodist Church. A number of fallen tombstones are standing in the vicinity.
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