We humbly request that you write to the following individuals expressing your concern that Warner Cemetery not be subjected to further encroachment by the expansion of the QEW to seven or eight lanes from the existing four lanes. For example the tombstone of McGregory Van Every UE, erected in 1786, is one that will be severely affected by this expansion. Every UE is the oldest known tombstone in the Niagara region to remain within a cemetery. With confidence, I can say that no monument in any cemetery in the old Lincoln and Welland counties has an earlier date of death on it. Not only that, I believe that the monument must have been made in or shortly after 1786.
Every monument exists in the Niagara region.
It probably also is the monument with the richest reddish colour existing in the Niagara peninsula. It is for Lenard Blanck who died in 1782. Below is the notice from John Warner. In a telephone conversation with him this evening, he indicated that he will forward on to me the name and address of this official so that I can post it in these discussion groups. Because of the urgency of this request, I am sending this notice to you prior to receiving this address from John and will send it to you as soon as it reaches me.