Person:Mary Boyle (35)

Page 7,8. He [Ashman Carpenter] was born in 1725, married Mary Boyle of Maidenhead, N.J. and, being a Loyalist, emigrated to Canada [from New Jersey] after the war. He died in Queenston in 1786 and was buried there. Thereafter his wife, and her sons and daughters moved further west and settled in Saltfleet and Grimsby township.
It is said that Mrs. Carpenter resided with her son, Gershom, until her death in 1815. She is buried in St. Andrew's churchyard, Grimsby, and only a portion of the stone which marks her resting place, can be seen embedded in an immense tree which, it is recorded, was planted by her grave shortly after her death.

21 June 1945, page 1.

In St. Andrews Churchyard, Grimsby, in the Carpenter family plot, is a tombstone almost embedded in a huge elm tree, said to be well over 100 years old. The stone was erected in memory of Mary Boyle Carpenter, who was buried there in 1815. She was the widow of Ashman Carpenter, who was buried in 1786, and whose grave is said to be under the roots of the tree which was planted on the grave soon after Mrs. Carpenter's burial.