John and I did a wee road trip in the summer of 2020 and came across a Switzerville United Church Cemetery, in Odessa, Ontario. This little stone caught my eye:
Two boys, Joseph in this 11th year and Garret Fletcher Miller in his 5th year, who both drowned in the Napanee River on June 20, 1843. Garret Miller Sr was born is 1786 and a son of Garett Miller U.E.L and Elizabeth Switzer. He married Nancy Foster, from Northport Ontario and they settled in Strathcona on 200 acres of land, which he received being the son of a loyalist. Garett built a stone house on the property where he and Nancy had 8 children. Sadly, his two eldest boys were the ones who drowned mysteriously in the Napanee River. It seems that no one witnessed the event and they were found in the river.(1) RIP to these two boys, taken too young.(1)The Romance of the Palatine Millers: a tale of Palatine Irish Americans and United Empire Loyalists. Pages 142-143
