Section L

Ward

Fanny Augusta Ward, died February 13, 1866. "I know that my Redeemer liveth."

Footstone: “F.A.W.”

Lot #45 was jointly owned by the Robb and Ward families.

Fanny Augusta was born in 1835, a daughter of the Venerable Archdeacon Coster. She married Henry Ward, M.D., an Englishman thirteen years her senior. Dr. Ward was a surgeon with one of the regiments and the son of a physician, Edward Ward. Their son, Philip, was born about 1857 and a daughter, Christiana, in 1859. According to Cathedral records, Walter George Edward was baptised 7 February 1861, Arthur Charles on 4 July 1862, and Emma Mabel on 30 July 1863.

Dr. Ward was married, secondly, 7 July 1867, to Louisa Isabella, daughter of the Honourable John Ambrose Street, Attorney General of New Brunswick. Dr. Ward in 1871 had his office at the corner of St. John and Queen Streets.

Saint John Globe, Saint John, NB, 11 March 1893:

The death is announced at Bournemouth, England, Feb. 5, of Mrs. Louise L. Ward widow of Dr. Henry Ward. The lady was the d/o Hon. John Ambrose Street and is the second member of the family whose death is announced in the past few weeks. Dr. Ward was formerly in the Royal Navy. His first wife was a Miss Coster of Fredericton. He practiced for some time in Carleton (St. John) and afterwards removed to Fredericton and then went back to England.

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Wallace

Lot #55. A plain iron rail surrounded the second lot from George Street, which appears to be vacant as there are no tombstones. Buried here, however, are James Walker Wallace (died 1890) with his wife Martha, and their unmarried daughters, Rachel and Annie.

James Wallace was a son of Robert Wallace and Mary Strachan, born on 17 May 1849 and baptised in the old Kirk. He altered Fredericton’s lighting from oil lamps to gas. A sister of James Wallace married Robert MacReadie, who later altered the gas fixtures for electricity. Another sister, Mary, the second wife of William Tufts, is buried here with her brother’s family and her parents.

See also The Old Burying Ground, Vol. III, p. 244.

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Stuart

"So He giveth his beloved sleep." In memory of Elizabeth C. Ramsay, wife of Rev. W. Stuart died Dec. 8, 1874 aged 32 years. Also Elizabeth Margaret, their infant daughter died April 30, 1875, aged six months and twenty-three days.

The Reverend William Stuart was a minister of the Free Kirk, which stood on Brunswick Street, Fredericton. His wife was a daughter of David Ramsay of Port Hill, Prince Edward Island.

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Stewart

STEWART "I am the resurrection and the life". Thomas Stewart, born at Newton Stewart, Scotland, 23rd Nov. 1791, died 8th April 1870.

Elizabeth, his wife, died 21st Sept. 1862, aged 65 years.

Their children, Margaret, died 27th January, 1849, aged 21 years — James died 23rd January, 1852, aged 18 years — Charles, died at Havana 21st Aug., 1859, aged 25 years

Their grandchild, Thomas Stewart, infant son of Z.R. Everett and Helen T. Everett, died 12th Aug., 1863.

John K. Stewart, died in Montana, Oct. 28th, 1885.

W.R. Stewart, died at Nceumea, South Pacific, 1873.

When St. Paul’s Church was incorporated, Thomas Stewart and Thomas Everett were two of the first trustees. Thomas Stewart had several sons and one surviving daughter, Helen. She married Zebedee Ring Everett, a nephew of Thomas Everett and a grandson of Thomas Everett, Loyalist, who died in 1814. Zebedee R. Everett, a merchant, was an alderman in 1871. He was the paternal grandfather of the Misses Everett, Isabel, Bessie, and Winnie, sisters of the infant Thomas Everett buried here.

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Robert Slowman, plasterer

Old Burying Ground

The family lived on George Street in Fredericton, but returned to the United States after Harriet’s death sometime after 1861. Many Fredericton houses today bear silent witness to the craft of Victorian-era plasterers such as Robert Slowman, the ceilings decorated with cornices and medallions that could not easily be replaced.

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Dr. James Robb

Old Burying Ground

Dr. James Robb, who had studied medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland, joined the staff of King’s College in 1837 as its first professor of Chemistry. Together with Dr. Jack and Marshal d’Avray, he weathered the stormy criticism of King’s College during the 1850s to see the University of New Brunswick was established in 1859. It was Dr. Robb who designed the City of Fredericton’s coat-of-arms.

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John Richards and family

Old Burying Ground

John Richards was born in 1823 and married Helen Ann Long, with whom he had at least six children. A prominent Mason, he had many business interests in Fredericton and served as a York County magistrate, secretary-treasurer of the Fredericton Railway Company, and assistant Clerk of the Legislative Assembly.

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Descendants of the Honourable and Reverend Jonathan Odell

Old Burying Ground

The Honourable and Reverend Jonathan Odell came to New Brunswick in 1783 with the New England Loyalists. A clergyman of the Church of England, he was for many years the government Secretary of the Province. The house occupied for a hundred years or more by the Odell family is shown in the first town plat, the plan of which was made by Lieut. Dugald Campbell. The large iron rings bolted into the woodwork were probably placed there to chain deserters during one of the early periods of the movement of troops through Fredericton.

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Charles Long of Long’s Hotel, Fredericton

Old Burying Ground

Charles Long, who came to Fredericton from Ludlow, was the owner of Long’s Hotel on the corner of King and York Streets. One of his sons, William W. Long, was a charter member of the Fredericton Orange Lodge and served for a time as deputy sheriff and gaoler, living in the Brunswick Street gaol.

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The family of William Brydone Jack, President of the University of New Brunswick

Old Burying Ground

William Brydone Jack was the second President of the University of New Brunswick (1861-1885), having come to this university from Scotland in the autumn of 1840, and serving the college faithfully for forty-five years. Much credit is given to William Brydone Jack and his colleagues, Dr. Robb, who lies buried close by, and Marshall d’Avray, for the development of the University of New Brunswick. Jack died in 1886, survived by his second wife, Caroline Disbrow, and their four children.

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