Fairley-Porter Cemetery

The Fairley-Porter Cemetery is designated a Local Historic Place for its association with the Fairley family. It is believed to be the resting place for about twenty members of the Fairley family. Irish immigrant John Fairley, the original grant-holder on which the cemetery is found, is interred here. The descendants of Fairley became prominent members of the business community and were involved in the lumber and merchant trades. His children were Trustees of the local Methodist Church and instrumental in seeing the establishment and construction of the Methodist Church Boiestown in 1868, as well as the parsonage, which is built on Fairley land about 1875.

This private family cemetery was utilized prior to the inception of the area’s Methodist cemetery, bearing burial dates in the first half of the 19th century (1835-1848). The Fairley-Porter Cemetery is significant as it is a reminder of past interment traditions and the religious faith of early settlement families.