-44- THS OLD ELM AVfflOE CESOTSBI (1899) There is no spot in Prince Edward Island of so much interest as the old burying' ground in Charlottetown . We cannot tell who was the first person buried here, or when the ground was set apart as a cemetery. In tho year 1789 John and Terence Webster had a grant of Common Lot 24, of which this land would form a part if not reserved. We pre¬ sume the present enclosure was not fenced when first used as a burial ground, from the fact that part of a human skeleton was found in 1899 about 100 feet outside the pre¬ sent fence. Strange to say, a grant of the ground for bur¬ ial purposes was given by Hon . George Wright , administrator, to the Episcopal Church, thirty-seven years after interment was recorded on the first stone, Taking a walk over the grounds, the oldest inscrip¬ tion we find is as follows? "Sacred to the Memory of Isa- belle, wife of George Bell , Sg't. of the 21st Grenadiers. Died Aug. 11, If 79, aged 24 yrs." The Company of the 21st Regiment to which George Bell belonged, was no doubt locat¬ ed in the old barracks on . Twenty-one years before this, Charlottetown was laid off, principally on ■paper. The streets parallel with the river '.vere all 80 ft. wide. Hillsborough and Rochford Squares were laid off in town lots, whilst the blocks on which Connolly's Block on and Sir . Alley 's residence on (now Red Sross House ) are located were set apart for squares. The old streets were made narrower, and the squares changed to their oresent sites, by Governor Patterson . At the time of Mrs. Bell , dykes, bluoberry swamps and patches of woods were to be seen in what is now the centre of the City. To the north of - evident¬ ly intended for suburban residences from the size of the blocks - the streets were not all extended to their present limit, while about forty houses, principally log structures, marked the progress Charlottetown had made. Ihe grave of Mrs. Bell is about the centre of the burying ground. The stone, unlike any her..:, is similar to thousands erected in the r din- Ian St Luring the 1700's. At the head of the o - tanda i single slab