Anonymous Gravesite
There are several gravesites situated in Journios Field next to Journois Pond. There was no record kept of these deceased individuals.
A cabin boy ,aged twelve, died of smallpox on a slope, in the early eighteen hundreds and was carried up the hill by crew members and buried in a place called the Gulch, which was situated between Fischells and Berry’s Brook. However, this hillside has foundered since then and most likely; this gravesite went out to sea.
Information collected from generations to generation related stores of passengers who died from smallpox while aboard sailing ships passing through the areas from Fischells to Bank Head. These victims were laid to rest on the hillsides along the shorelines. The elders in these communities remember being told as children about several babies and young children who were carried by the crew members up the hillside on Haynes’s in Bank Head and laid to rest. Today, this information would be impossible to prove because the majority of hills in these areas have foundered and the remains washed into the sea.
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