Old Parish Burying Ground (Windsor, Nova Scotia)

The oldest marker of Rachel Kelley is dated 1771, twelve years after the New England Planters began to settle the area.

In 1776, the Honourable Michael Francklin gave about two acres of land for erecting a Church, and for a “Burying Ground”.

After the second church was built, this first building was moved opposite the entrance gates to King’s College and Hind reports that formed part of a house.

"[3] According to the survey at the West Hants Historical Society, the oldest surviving gravestone marks the death of Mrs. Rachel Kelly on January 27, 1771.

Members of some prominent Windsor and Nova Scotian families are buried in the Old Parish Burying Ground including: Isaac DesChamps, the fourth Chief Justice of Nova Scotia (1785-1788), Winckworth Tonge, grandson of one of the original land grantees, and Susanna Francklin, wife of Lieutenant Governor Michael Francklin who donated the land for the Burying Ground, as well as early presidents and professors of King’s College including William Cochran, the first President of the College.