Wilmot Amish Mennonite Society Cemetery CC#4551

Canada Company Block B, Concession 2 Lot 15, Wilmot Township, Region of Waterloo, Ontario

This little cemetery lies in Canada Company Block B, Concession II, Lot 15 in northern Wilmot Township, Region of Waterloo, Ontario. it is located in what became known as the Amish Settlement. Several families came from Lewis County, New York in the late 1830's and settled to the north of the existing Amish Mennonite community in Wilmot, and south of the Clergy Reserves of present Wellesley Township.

Michael Zehr settled on Lot 16 Concession II, eventually purchasing it from Canada Company. In the 1860's he also purchased Lot 15, and it is on this lot that the cemetery is located. In 1873 (registered in 1874), Michael and Barbara Zehr sold a small parcel of land at the northern end of this lot to the trustees of the Amish Mennonite Society for $12.00. A small rectangular portion of six perches were surveyed at the road where a funeral chapel could be built. Then there was an eight foot roadway (about 5 chains, 92 links long) leading to another rectangular piece on a hill, which was the burial site. The roadway and burial ground comprised one third of an acre. Evidently a building was constructed, but some persons remember it being called a school. Perhaps it served both as a school and a funeral chapel.

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