Most of the names on the older stones are familiar to folks today. There are people, descended from these early settlers in Eramosa whose names are written on the stones and in many record books.

Names...some of these are EVERTS, STEWART, CREWSON, HORTOP, PASMORE and MITCHELL to mention but a few.

Occasioally however, there is a stone with a name no longer heard in Eramosa. Such a name is DOLMAGE. The column that stands on the Dolmage plot has three names. JOHN DOLMAGE, SARAH ANSTON DOLMAGE his wife and their daugher, ALECIA.

Under Sarah Dolmage's name is one of the longest epitaphs of any of the stones. It is:

"who after a self-sacrificing devotion to the cause of Christ and her family, with great Christian fortitude and calm resignation, met the King of...". The last word is unreadable. Mrs. Dolmage died May 18, 1867. Following this is the familiar lines; O death where is thy victory, O grave where is thy sting." Only they are slightly misquoted.

Record...the epitaph is not surprising for in an early church record book, recently found by Alvin Root, Charles Harris and Roy Leslie are the names of the Dolmages who were trying to form a congregation. Their group went by the name "Dolmages". Today, no one seems to know for certain, just where this family lived, but it was near Rockwood and it is the "Circuit Register of Member's Names" begining in 1858.

There are eleven names and all belonged to three families; The Dolmages, McKeown and a Henry Mathews. There was a John Dolmage Senior. Evidently their group didn't grow for on January 11, 1860 all the Dolmages McKeown's and Henry Mathews are on the Rockwood Village list. Class No 1 that later became the Methodist congregation.

May be Son...One stone reads; "CHRISTIAN COULTER of Oakville, wife of WILLIAM MOON" who died in 1878. The 1883 Wellington County Directory lists a HENRY MOON, a blacksmith of Everton, who was perhaps this woman's son. It isn't often that a stone tells of where the person came from unless it was the old country.

The stone of FRANCES SOPHIA, wife of THOMAS MARTIN is one of the oldest and is still in good condition. She was born in 1805 and died in 1853.

JOHN STEWART who lives on No. 24 highway, near Everton is proudly decended from a greatgrandfather, also, John, who with a brother, Peter, were the first settlers in the Everton district. It was PETER STEWART who gave or sold a part of his land for the Everton Cemetery.

John Stewart has remembered may facts about the earlier days in this district. He recalls that RUFUS EVERTS had twin sons, WILLIAM and JOHN. Rufus was the son of pioneer CHARLES EVERTS.

Of particular interest is a belief that John Stewart and other members of the Everton Cemetery Board have regarding this old burying ground. They think it was once an Indian graveyard, for many times, they have been digging a grave and when two and a half feet down, find bones. They lay the opposite way to those buried in later times. They have called the police in each case, but all feel sure that this has long been a cemetery.

Anyone who likes local history will find a study of these stones in Everton Cemetery, well worth their while. The old stones yet record dates and occasional facts that are not to be found in any vital statistics.