Robert McFadden - Renwick United Church Cemetery - Linden, NS
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N 45° 52.730 W 063° 50.336
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A very rural church, Renwick United is along Highway 6, 16 kilometres west of Pugwash and about 30 kilometres east of Amherst.
Waymark Code: WMQP5Z
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Date Posted: 03/11/2016
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Robert McFadden's grave, with this small, two dimensional zinc headstone to mark it, is on the eastern side of the cemetery, near the centre one of three trees east of the front of the church. Nothing has been learned of the life of Robert McFadden beyond the fact that he tragically died at a very young age. Born in 1862, he lived just short of thirty years. No other McFaddens are buried in the cemetery, indicating that his family was very likely not from this vicinity.
A Meeting House style building representative of mid nineteenth century and earlier churches, Renwick United was built in 1864 as a Presbyterian Church. The church was named in honour of James Renwick, a seventeenth century Presbyterian martyr. As did the majority of Presbyterian Churches in Canada, Renwick Presbyterian became a United Church on June 10, 1925, when Methodists, Presbyterians and Congregationalists joined.
In the churchyard is its cemetery, containing at least 131 interments, according to Find A Grave. The earliest known was that of Ada Ella Sophronia Darragh, an infant born October of 1866, who passed away November 6, 1867, aged thirteen months. The cemetery appears to be in use as yet, as the latest listed interment occurred in 2014. Though there are 131 interments listed, there seem to be considerably fewer headstones in the cemetery.
