Alexander Harvie
ID # 4496, (1824-1842)
| Father | David Lennox Harvie (1794-1865) |
| Mother | Mary Fraser (1796-1894) |
| Baptism | Alexander Harvie was baptized in 1824 at Dumfries Township, Gore District. |
| Death | He died on 23 July 1842. |
| Burial | He was buried at Harvie Cemetery, now in Sheffield Cemetery. |
| Note | Alexander Harvie, the eldest son of David Lennox Harvie and Mary Fraser, was buried in the Harvie Cemetery on the family farm and it is from his gravestone that we have the date and cause of death: In / Memory of / Alexander Harvie / eldest son of David and / Mary Harvie. Dumfries: / who died suddenly in / the 18th, year of his age, / July 23rd, A. D. 1842 / in consequence of the accidental discharge of / his rifle. / He cometh forth like a flower / and is cut down: he fleeth also / as a shadow & continueth not / We have no sure record of the place of birth or death for Alexander, but he was almost certainly born in Dumfries Township in the Gore District and likely died there as well. The transcription of the Harvie Cemetery's gravestone was apparently made by the Waterloo Region branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society after the stones had been removed to the Doon Pioneer Village. An elderly Harvie family member who had cared for the cemetery while it was still in family hands got involved and was able to identify places of burial. The remains were removed to McMaster University in Hamilton where a forensic examination was done and then the remains were reinterred at Sheffield Cemetery. The stones were relocated to Sheffield as well. This was mid 1980s. A visit was made to the cemetery in 2010. Stones once visible were no longer there, but young Alexander's stone was still there, though the inscription was by then nearly unreadable. |
| Last Edited | 13 Nov 2017 |