Leave the main road — Highway 3A — and take the Upper Longbeach Road for an appropriate distance. When you reach the spot, which is not easily found, you will have to climb a fence and do a little bushwhacking. You will find three graves. They belong to members of the Hill family: mother, father and daughter. The parents apparently died of natural causes, but their young daughter Mary was the victim of a drowning. She died in an attempt to save a friend. Her headstone reads: "drowned helping to save her playfellow." It is dated July 24, 1920.

When the time for Mary's funeral arrived friends and family began to gather. The grave was dug and all things were made ready for the burial, save one. The clergyman was not in evidence. There was some concern that there was a mix-up as to the time of the service. Someone undertook the task of rowing to his residence in Procter. They found him at home and he told them that he could not take the service. His reason was that the churchyard was unconsecrated ground. The party then rowed back to Longbeach and gave the news to those who came to the funeral. Someone in the crowd was able to conduct the service, the child was buried, a lunch was served, and all returned to their homes. The next Sunday after the funeral was to be the first service in the parish of Kokanee by the new vicar who had been unable to officiate at the funeral. On that day, he left his vicarage, rowed to Longbeach, and began to set up the things required to conduct the service. At times this would mean wine, water, altar bread, hymnbooks, prayer books, and linens, hangings and other paraments. When the hour arrived, no congregation appeared. The vicar waited a reasonable amount of time and then returned to his vicarage in Procter. The same thing happened on his second Sunday in the parish.

He must have intuited from the absence of a congregation that he could not continue as the vicar of this work and shortly after, this he left the parish to exercise his ministry elsewhere.