A History of The Cemetery The cemetery was started down by the shore before the present church was built. The first person buried in our cemetery was David Potts , an English sailor whose body washed ashore. There is a gravestone at his grave but it states only that he was the son of John Potts from England . No details are available as to his ship or how his body came to wash ashore. The cemetery was used for the Nine Mile Creek area as well as the Cove. Some from the St. Catherines area used it even though there is a Pioneer Cemetery at St Catherines. Some of our people are buried in the Argyle Shore Cemetery. The early settlers would use the cemetery of their choice and the descendents, usually, would continue to use that cemetery. At first all cemeteries had rounded graves which were not precisely aligned whether they had stones or not. This would make the cemetery difficult to care for when people began to be concerned with the appearance of a cemetery. In the late 1920's the graves were levelled and the stones aligned so that a lawn mower could be used. Our cemetery is one of the more attractive ones, as the grass is kept mowed and extra flowers are planted to enhance its appearance.