The Bannerman family are one of the many of the Scotch Settlement buried here (the Hunters, Magees, Faris' and Macbeths are others who have family plots within the cemetery).
Bateman home, on the 13th Line east of Highway 11. Owned as of 2007 by the Kirkup family. From left: Florence Almeda (Bateman) Sawyer, neighbour girl, Dora Bateman (Thorpe), Thomas Morwood Bateman in buggy holding his granddaughter Nelda (Sawyer) Evans, Ann Mabel Bateman.
The grave markers of the cemetery have been placed in these two areas for preservation. Some parts of the gravestones are illegible because of missing/broken sections or erosion.
(on the top side): "Father" (on the front side): "Ira Belfry, died July 11, 1887; Aged 79 years, 7 Mo, 23 Days. May he rest in Peace" Ira settled on lot 14, con. 8 in 1830 where a one acre site for the Primitive Methodist Church, a cemetery and an early school was later built.
