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Introduction ...

Although we found mention of Beavers Corner during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Beavers Corner was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Beavers Corner (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Beavers Corner. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for Beavers Corner ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

  • A typical abbreviation for Beavers Corner: Beavers Cor. (or less commonly used: Beavers Crn.)
  • While the name of this community is Beavers Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Beavers Corner may originally have been Beaver's Corner.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Beavers Corner might be written as Beaver Corner.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Cemeteries Near Beavers Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Beavers Corner.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Beavers Corner - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Beavers Corner covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Beavers Corner, with the one closest to Beavers Corner listed first.

  • Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Christ Church Anglican Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Beavers Corner.
    • The Christ Church Anglican Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Christ Church Cemetery
    • Christ Church Chapel of Ease Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2638264 <3>
  • Johnsfield Baptist Church Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Johnsfield Baptist Church Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Johnsfield Baptist Church Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Johnsfield Baptist Church Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<5> to the east of Ohsweken.
    • The Johnsfield Baptist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
    • John's Field Baptist Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2554258 <3>
  • St. Luke's Anglican Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Chapel of the Delaware Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Jubilee Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • St. Patrick's Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Caledonia Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Municipal Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Caledonia Methodist Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • St. Paul's Anglican Church Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Paul's Anglican Church Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Paul's Anglican Church Cemetery is located in Middleport.
    • The St. Paul's Anglican Church Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Middleport Anglican Church Cemetery
    • St. Paul's Anglican / Middleport Anglican Church Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2361852 <3>
  • Saint John's Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Saint John's Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Saint John's Cemetery is located in Saint Johns.
    • The Saint John's Cemetery has also been known as:
    • St. John's Anglican Cemetery
    • St. John's Church Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2336872 <3>
  • Continue List   (333 more) ...
    • Salvation Army Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Salvation Army Cemetery
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Salvation Army Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Salvation Army Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<5> to the southeast of Ohsweken.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2400748 <3>
    • Second Onondaga Baptist Church Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Unity Church Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Beavers Corner. See our List of 1890's Communities around Beavers Corner.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Beavers Corner:

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Beavers Corner and then turned east". While Beavers Corner could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Beavers Corner as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Beavers Corner could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

Since confusion between is common, we searched and weren't able to find another Ontario community named Beavers Corner.
<2>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<3>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<4>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Beavers Corner) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Beavers Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.0719, Longitude: -80.0147