A visit to the Butler's Burying Ground ...
Introduction ...
Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Butler's Burying Ground. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Butler's Burying Ground (FG ID #2324330)
Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. Without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery was actually buried elsewhere.
We discovered that his burial had been refused at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.
Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.
The Location of the Butler's Burying Ground ...
We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Butler's Burying Ground
Lat: 43.2512° (43° 15' 4")
Lon: -79.0905° (-79° 5' 25")
Websites to help with your research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Butler's Burying Ground:
- Pages specific to Ontario:
- Cemetery Information and Directories:
- About the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church ...
- Although we don't have a link to the Butler's Burying Ground
itself, you might be curious about the African Methodist Episcopal Church. See their website at:
- The African Methodist Episcopal Church
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 25 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> of the Butler's Burying Ground.
We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Butler's Burying Ground, with the nearest first.
- Niagara on the Lake
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Mississauga Beach
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mississauga Beach came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mississauga Beach
- Niagara ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Niagara came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niagara
- Colemans
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colemans
- Virgil
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Youngstown
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Youngstown have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngstown
- Youngstown is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,833 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Youngstown <3>
- McNab
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McNab
- Weller Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Port Weller
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Port Weller came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Weller
- Saint Davids
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Queenston
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Lewiston
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lewiston have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewiston
- Lewiston is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,572 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lewiston <3>
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Porter Center
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter Center
- Porter Center is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Harrison Grove
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison Grove
- Harrison Grove is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Homer
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homer
- Model City
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Model City have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Model City
- Model City is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Model City <3>
- Stamford
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stamford
- Varsity Village
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Varsity Village have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Varsity Village
- Varsity Village is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Port Dalhousie
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Saint Catharines
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Merritton
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Orchard Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Clifton
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton
- Dickersonville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickersonville
- Dickersonville is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Ransomville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.
Nearby communities with newspapers ...
The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Butler's Burying Ground. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in .
More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Butler's Burying Ground.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically.
- Lewiston
- Model City
- Ransomville
- Youngstown
List of nearby cemeteries ...
Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 23 that are within 8 miles [12.9 km] of the Butler's Burying Ground.<6>
We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from Butler's Burying Ground, with the nearest first.
- Niagara Lakeshore Municipal Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- St. Vincent De Paul RC Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- St. Mark's Anglican Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Ft. Niagara Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Niagara Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Ft. Niagara Cemetery is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Niagara Cemetery
- Servos Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Servos Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<7>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Servos Cemetery
- St. Bernards Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Bernards Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The St. Bernards Cemetery is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Bernards Cemetery
- Ft. Niagara Post Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Niagara Post Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Ft. Niagara Post Cemetery is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Niagara Post Cemetery
- Field / Vrooman / Brown Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Field / Vrooman / Brown Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<7>
- The Field / Vrooman / Brown Cemetery has also been known as:
- River Road Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Field / Vrooman / Brown Cemetery
- St. Johns Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Johns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The St. Johns Cemetery is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Johns Cemetery
- Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Sterling / Clement / Sixth Line Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Stella Niagara Sisters of St. Francis Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Stella Niagara Sisters of St. Francis Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Stella Niagara Sisters of St. Francis Cemetery is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stella Niagara Sisters of St. Francis Cemetery
- Continue List (11 more) ...
- Towers Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Towers Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Towers Cemetery is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Towers Cemetery
- Oakland Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Oakland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Oakland Cemetery is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oakland Cemetery
- William Servos Burial Plot
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- St. David's United Methodist Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Lewiston Village Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lewiston Village Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Lewiston Village Cemetery is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lewiston Village Cemetery
- Homer Anglican Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- The Homer Anglican Cemetery has also been known as:
- Homer Burying Ground / The Ten Anglican Cemetery
- Homer Burying Ground
- Horner Anglican Cemetery
- Ten Anglican Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Homer Anglican Cemetery
- Riverdale Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Gate of Heaven Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- The Gate of Heaven Cemetery is located in Niagara County (NY)
- The Gate of Heaven Cemetery has also been known as:
- Gate Heaven Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gate of Heaven Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1656404 <1>
- Holy Trinity Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Beth Israel Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Beth Israel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Beth Israel Cemetery is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beth Israel Cemetery
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...
Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Butler's Burying Ground:
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Butler's Burying Ground. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.2512, Longitude: -79.0905 |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database. |
| <5> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <6> | While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), you can be assured that it's not complete and our list will be missing cemeteries. |
| <7> | 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. |
| <8> | To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Virgil and Saint Davids. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location. |