Place:Foster Cemetery, Demorestville, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada

Foster Cemetery, also known as Foster's Cemetery, is an inactive cemetery in Sophiasburgh township maintained by the municipality of Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.

Location

See the location provided by the municipality for #89: http://www.pecounty.on.ca/government/eng_dev_works/pdf/SophiasburghWardCemeteriesMap.pdf. The cemetery is not currently visible on Google satellite imagery. It is located to the east of Fish Lake and may not be accessible from the main Fish Lake Road. CemSearch indicates the location as Sophiasburgh township on Concession 2 West of Green Point Lot 36. Variously described as at Conc. 2, Lot 27, Sophiasburg Twp., Prince Edward County, Ontario ^[1] The Ontario GenWeb Cemetery Project gives the same address, but Lot 26 rather than Lot 27.

Documentation, transcriptions, and links

A register of burials has not been located. As a family/community cemetery, one may never have existed.

CemSearch: Contains 184 records. Unfortunately CemSearch is not currently searchable by cemetery name.

Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid: Has 236 indexed names, see http://ocfa.islandnet.com/ocfa-search.php?page=2&cemetery=Foster&county=Prince+Edward&township=Sophiasburgh.

Ontario Genealogical Society Cemetery Transcriptions: Surviving gravestones transcribed in the 1980s, available for purchase from the Bay of Quinte Genealogical Society (see: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canqbogs/prince_edward_cemeteries.htm), at the Ontario Genealogical Society Library, or on microfilm at the Archives of Ontario (for film number see: http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/microfilm/cemetery_prince.aspx)

Ontario GenWeb Cemetery Project: Has a directory listing for Ontario GenWeb Cemetery Project - Foster's Cemetery.

1. ↑ OGS Cemetery Transcriptions: Prince Edward County