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SEBRIGHT UNITED CHURCH CEMETERY

Posted by: Mike on Jan 13, 2012 – 03:11 PM
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Located at 5808 Kirkfield Road, just south of the Monck Road. This cemetery is on the boundary of the former Rama Township, in the former Ontario County, (now Ramara Township, Simcoe County) and Dalton Township, formerly of Victoria County, (now City of Kawartha Lakes). Interments would include individuals from both of the former Ontario and Victoria counties.photos of the grave markers may be found at Ontario Gravemarker Gallery:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cangmg/ontario/index.htm\Visit- Sebright Church, under Active Topics & Ramara history, to learn more about this Church and it’s cemetery..
Sebright United Church Cemetery
Lot 21, Con B, Rama Twp.

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Submitted by Murray R. Binsted
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Early in 1944 I got a job carrying the mail from the Atherley post office to the Atherley railway station where I put the first class mail bag on the afternoon train that ran between Midland and Blackwater six days a week.  Bernard Lanigan, the postmaster paid me the princely sum of twenty cents each day and occasionally on Friday, when he was feeling generous, he gave me money to buy a chocolate bar at Pat’s Place, the local gas station.

The Canadian National Railway track divided at Atherley with the one branch going and the other to the east.

Every day after school I went to the post office, picked up the mailbag, a locked canvas bag for the first class mail, and took it to the station where the train arrived about 4:45 p.m.  The station was an old wooden passenger car, which sat on the ground.  There was no agent there and the building was always open.  Some days during the winter the section men lit a fire in the stove so that they could eat their lunch in comfort.  This meant that on those days the station was still warm while I waited for the train.  And some days the train was not always on time.

About once a week there were several well-filled parcel bags to take to the station. These bags contained bundles of used clothing, which a man by the name of Malosh shipped to Newfoundland and Labrador.  In the summer I had a wheelbarrow with a steel wheel to carry the extra bags and in the winter a sleigh, one that ice fishermen used to haul their fish huts on to the lake.  Occasionally on Saturdays during the summer I carried the first class mailbag to the noon passenger train that traveled between Toronto and Gravenhurst.  When there were no passengers for Atherley, the engineer would slow the train down and I had to throw the mailbag through the open door of the mail car as the train passed by.  My big fear was missing the door although I never did.

I was eleven years old at this time and I don’t know whether it was lawful for me to carry the mail.  I was cheap labour, though.

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