
The Black Settlement Burial Ground, located in Willow Grove, near Saint John, is the site an actual burial ground. The sculpture and church replica placed there in the 1980s commemorates the community of Black Loyalist refugees who lived in the area beginning in the late 18th Century.
Willow Grove Burial Permits Name Age Date of Death Boyd, Frederick 3 months October 15, 1910 Boyd, Prince Arthur 11 months June 19, 1912 Bree, Douglas 6 years June 29, 1935 Bree, Marsha Elizabeth 76 years July 30, 1940 Cole, Donald H. 8 months August 29, 1931 Cooper, Benjamin 48 years November 30, 1927 Cooper, Francis 30 years October 22, 1903 Diggs, Alexander 52 years April 23, 1917 Charles Hall, Child of 2 days January 28, 1910 Charles Hall, Child of stillborn March 13, 1911 Charles Hall, Child of 1 day May 20, 1917 Hall, Charles T. 4 days June 07, 1921 Hall, Emily 44 years January 28, 1922 Hall, Emily 23 years May 31, 1934 Hall, Irene 17 years June 28, 1916 Harrison, Almon 48 years December 31, 1913 Harrison, Blanch 10 months May 27, 1903 Harrison, William 1 year February 09, 1910 Harrison, Willis 2 years June 04, 1903 Hector, Joseph 55 years May 09, 1912 Hill, Rachael J. 39 years March 03, 1920 Jackson, George 59 years December 12, 1892 Jackson, Mary 92 years September 07, 1926 Kennedy, George 70 years April 28, 1900 Kennedy, Georges 52 years March 17, 1935 Kennedy, William 26 years August 24, 1904 Parrot, Julia 75 years August 12, 1913 Roach, Ronald 1 month June 17, 1943 Roche, Edward 50 years June 05, 1939 Roche, William Percy 4 months November 10, 1921 Sasso, Anne 39 years July 22, 1935 Shears, Joseph W. 66 years February 23, 1941 Shears, Walter 1 year January 05, 1906 Snead, Bertha 89 years June 22, 1935 Snead, John 65 years November 18, 1922 Taylor, Daniel 50 years December 20, 1910 Thompson, James 72 years December 02, 1935 Thompson, Hannah 78 years December 21, 1940 Williams, Freda St. Clair 20 years December 18, 1919 Williams, Henry John Very Old December 31, 1925

(Sculpture created and donated by W.(Victor) Wojcik)