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Tolsta Cemetery
Frontenac County, Quebec

Contributed by Leslie Nutbrown, Aug 14, 2006. [lnutbrown@videotron.ca]. Total records = 31.

From Sherbrooke take Route 143 south to Lennoxville. Then take route 108 East. Stay on this road passing through Cookshire, Bury and Gould. Continue through Sainte Marguerite de Lingwick toward Stornoway. After a few miles watch for a road on your right called Tolsta Road. Stay on Route 108 and shortly after viewing Tolsta Road you will see a farm on the right and beside it a large sign saying Tolsta Cemetery. You will have to drive along the edge of the farm, open a gate and continue through a pasture to get to the cemetery which you can see in the distance. You may have to seek permission to cross the pasture either by foot or with a vehicle if the land is dry.

This is another of the Scottish cemeteries scattered about Frontenac County in the area once known as Tolsta, named after Tolsta, Isle of Lewis, Hebrides, Scotland. Although the cemetery is maintained, some stones had fallen over. It was nicely mowed, had a fence and a gate but its location in the middle of a cow pasture makes it difficult to reach.

I recorded all legible tombstones from this cemetery in August of 2006.

- Leslie Nutbrown

Legend:
s/w = sealed with or shares a stone with

Campbell, Effie, d. 5 Jun 1861, age: 41yrs, wife of Angus McIver
Campbell, John K., d. 23 Oct 1896, age: 32y 7m 6d
Campbell, John K., d. no date, age: 2yrs
MacAulay, ?, d. 30 May 1875, age: 25yrs, wife of ? MacIver
MacIver, Effie, b. 1889, d. 1919, wife of Angus Alex. MacIver, s/w John & Lilly MacIver
MacIver, John K., b. 1860, d. 1912, s/w & husband of Lilly
MacIver, Lilly, b. 1854, d. 1934, s/w & wife of John K.
MacLeod, Malcolm A., b. 1860 Gisla, Quebec, d. 1932, husband of Annie Robinson
Martin, Margaret, b. 1841, d. 1899, age: 58yrs, s/w & wife of Donald S. McLeod
Martin, Mary, d. 12 Jun 1896, age: 57yrs, s/w & wife of Angus Morrison
McDonald, Christie Ann, d. 28 Apr 1862, age: 10yrs
McDonald, Infant, d. 5 Jun 1864
McDonald, Kenneth K., d. 15 Sep 1863, age: 4yrs
McDonald, Kenneth K., d. 18 Mar 1892, age: 27yrs
McDonald, Kenneth, d. 13 Mar 1901, age: 74yrs, s/w & husband of Catherine Smith
McDonald, Murdo, d. 3 Jan 1884, age: 40yrs, husband of Catherine
McDonald, Randle K., d. 28 Jun 1885, age: 27yrs
McIver, ?, d. 28 Jun 1904, age: 28yrs, son of ? McIver & ? MacAulay, stone had fallen
McIver, Angus, d. 21 Dec 1891, age: 77yrs
McIver, Kenneth, b. 20 Nov 1846, d. 21 Oct 1902
McLeod, Catherine, d. 11 Aug 1887, age: 30y 3m 11d, wife of John Smith
McLeod, Donald S., b. 1839, d. 1915, age: 75yrs, s/w & husband of Margaret Martin
McRae, Angus, b. 1813, d. 1851
McRae, Dora Ann, b. 7 May 1881, d. 2 May 1900
McRae, Johnnie, d. no date, age: 19yrs, son of Angus & Bess
Morrison, Angus D., b. 1874, d. 1877, s/w & son of Angus & Mary
Morrison, Angus, b. 1835 Uig, Scotland, d. no date, s/w & husband of Mary Martin
Morrison, Catherine, b. 1842, d. 1899, wife of John McRae
Murray, Margaret, d. ?, age: 39yrs, wife of Angus McIver (?), stone had fallen
Smith, Catherine, d. 5 Nov 1896, age: 73yrs, s/w & wife of Kenneth McDonald
Stewart, Bess, b. 1814, d. 1899