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Savage Settlement Cemetery

This pioneer cemetery is located in the woods in Novar, a small community north of Huntsville. I visited this location on May 17th, of 2016. It is supposedly on what was part of the Savage Family farm and property. No known burials have the last name Savage, though. The cemetery is located in the woods and is not particularly easy to find. It should be noted that it was called St. Ann's at the times of the burials. See additional cemetery photos at the very end of this post.

                                             
                                                     
                                       BURIALS

Browne, Elizabeth Collins
Browne, Thomas Frederick
Maynard, Nellie 
Thomas, Amelia Barnes
Thomas, Charles Edward
Thomas, Grace Isabel
Thomas, James Edgar
Thomas, Mabel Ellen
Thomas, Mary Jane Maguire
Thomas, William Edward
Whiddon, Unknown

                                                                     
Elizabeth Browne Collins was born around 1830. She died August 20th, 1913 at age 83. She was married to Thomas Frederick Browne. 

Thomas Frederick Browne was born around 1820 and died on May 10th of 1899.



                                     
 Nellie Maynard, daughter of Henry Maynard and Emma Branch. She was born in Worth, Sussex, England on December 14th, 1898, and died in Chaffey Township, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada, on April 12th of 1914. She died of acute nephritis.            

Please be sure to see my blog post on the Maynard Family for more information on Nellie and her family.




William Edward Thomas was born in 1848 and died on June 27th of 1902. His wife was Amelia Barnes Thomas. They had five known children, Clara Adelaide (married William Joseph Gracey Dec. 2, 1908), Frederick Arthur, James Edgar, Charles Edward (see below), Lillian (married Henry F Gerhart on April 13th of 1897). 

Amelia Barnes Thomas was born in 1845 and died in 1921. Her husband was William Edward Thomas.


Charles Edward Thomas was born to the above William Edward Thomas and Amelia Barnes Thomas in 1870 and died in 1961. His burial is the most recent in the cemetery. He married Mary Jane Maguire on October 20th of 1897 in Morrison, Muskoka, Ontario. Their children included Arthur, Gertrude Amelia, Gladys E, Grace Isabel, Mabel Ellen, and William John.

Mary Jane Maguire Thomas was born in 1866 and died in 1918.

Grace Isabel Thomas, daughter of Charles Edward Thomas and Mary Jane Maguire was born on January 9th of 1903, and died on February 1st of 1924. She was buried on February 4th of 1924. She died of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Mabel Ellen Thomas, daughter of Charles Edward Thomas and Mary Jane Maguire was born on April 9th of 1907 and died on July 1st of 1918. She died of peritonitis.




James Edgar Thomas was born to William Edgar Thomas and Amelia Barnes Thomas on June 17th of 1883 and died on November 24th of 1892. He died of diphtheria, which he had for two weeks, at the age of 9. His brother was the above Charles Edgar Thomas.



Unknown Whiddon was born in 1870 and died on the 24th day of an unknown month in 1886. She was supposedly the wife of H. G. Whiddon. There is no other information on her.



Related Findings



Death certificate of Nellie Maynard.



                                         



                                                  Death certificate of William Edward Thomas.



                                                 Death certificate of Grace Isabel Thomas.


                                         Death certificate of Mabel Ellen Thomas.



Death certificate of James Edgar Thomas.


                     Additional Cemetery Photographs


                                            Entrance of the cemetery as seen from the road.


A few steps in.


The grave of Nellie Maynard, foot stone included.



Elizabeth Browne and Thomas Frederick Browne's grave site.


Thomas family stones.


View towards the Thomas family graves.


Browne family plot.


Unknown gate structure.


Another view of the gate structure.




A view of the cemetery as you enter.



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