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HISTORY NOTES FROM HAZZARD'S CORNERS
THE GLOVER FAMILY TRAGEDY

While wandering through Hazzard's Cemetery, we encounter many tales of family loss. There are none more heart-wrenching
than that of the family of Phillip and Nancy Glover. The Glovers came to the community from Thurlow Township in 1850. They
purchased a 160-acre farm on Lot 12, Concession 10 in Madoc Township. This farm is located on what is now Quinlan Road.
Their children attended Cedar School. That one-room school, now long gone, was built about 1835 and was located at the
corner of Queensborough Road and Cedar School Road, less than a mile from the Glover farm.

On the afternoon of Sunday March 22, 1868, Phillip Glover sent his son William, aged 15, out to fetch the cows for milking.
William was accompanied by his younger brothers, Franklin, 12 and Almond, 10. Their parents, strict Methodists, had
forbidden them to go skating on Sunday. However, boys being boys, they had hidden their skates earlier and soon made their
way to a pond further down the road. They were accompanied by a friend, 16-year-old Adney Bradshaw.

For a time, Mrs. Keene, a neighbour, saw them skating on the pond across the road from her house. On looking out again,
about four o'clock, the lady saw only one of the boys and he was lying on the ice before he too disappeared. The news of the
catastrophe quickly spread and members of the community rallied in support.
It is reported that 500 people attended the funeral at Hazzard's Corners Church. It was noted that “the sight of four fine lads
thus suddenly cut off, lying in their coffins, was a painful one not easily to be forgotten." William, Franklin and Almond Glover,
sons of Phillip and Nancy Glover, are buried in the family plot in Hazzard's Cemetery.

The family Cedar School, c. 1895.
monument in William, Franklin and
Hazzard's Cemetery Almond Glover
that bears the names attended this school.
of the Glover boys.