Hicksite Friends Burying Ground in Newmarket, Ontario

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Get directions 16580 Yonge Street
Newmarket, York Regional Municipality, Ontario L3X 2N9 Canada

Coordinates: 44.03242, -79.47597
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The Hicksite Friends Burying Ground (also known as the Hicksite Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground) was established circa 1829. The cemetery sits on a rise of ground on the West side of Yonge Street, and is located at 16580 Yonge Street. The cemetery consists of the remains of 73 individuals of Newmarket's early Quaker settlers.

The first burial took place as early as 1832. The Newmarket cemetery on north Main Street was established in 1869, but the Quaker cemeteries were still used occasionally. The last burial had taken place in 1919, by which time the number of Quaker followers had declined. The two storey meeting house was purchased and removed in 1942.

Originally, the Quakers did not permit grave markers, as they believed this created distinction between members on the basis of wealth. Therefore the earliest burials were in unmarked plots and in order of death. When grave markers were finally permitted, materials such as fieldstones, wood or marble were used. Surviving marble markers in the Hicksite burial ground carry the names of many of the area's first Quaker settler families: Armitage, Crone, Daniel, Dennis, Hollingshead, Powell, Southard, and Walton.