King City Cemetery, King City.

Founding of The King City Cemetery Company

Octagonal Dead House circa 1887

King City Cemetery, aka Crossley Cemetery is located on the north side of King Rd. in King City.  The cemetery was established in 1886 by a cemetery board  when Nathaniel Crossley sold fives acres of land for  the sum of one dollar to the trustees. 

The first meeting of trustees was held in Kinghorn. Shares were made available to the public to help maintain the property and pay for a caretaker. Any person found in default in paying for their shares was denied burial.

The cemetery is non-denominational and is the resting place for numerous founding families of the area.  One notable burial is that of Walter Rolling who was the first black educator in Twp of King.

This cemetery is also the home of one of the seven octagonal dead houses. These dead houses are peculiar to Southern Ontario and were essentially used to house the dead during the cold winter months when the ground was too frozen to bury them. Today the dead house is mainly used for the storage of equipment and not the dead.