"Here lies the remains of Elizabeth Bovyer, first spouse of David Lawson, Esq. Oct. 1811. And at the mother's right, their eldest son. Stephen Bovyer Lawson who died Oct. 2, 1831. As a memorial of whom this stone is erected in testimony of his affection and gratitude. Husband and parent."

"In memory of James Lawson, Nov. 10, 1833. Age 730 ll

"Elizabeth Miller, died Nov. 18, 1851. Age

79 years. My.boast is not that I deduced my birth

From kings enthroned or princes of the earth But higher far my proud pretensions rise The son of parents passed into the skies."

"In memory of John Auld died Sept. 7, 1842, Age 76. Also his wife Margaret, died Jan 25, 1847.

Age 76.

A member of the MacMillan family is believed to have discovered

several bodies washed ashore after the Yankee Gale of 1851 and in-

terred them in this cemetery.

When the story of the "discovery" of this cemetery was pub-

lished a few years ago in a local newspaper, a former Islander

living in Vancouver stated,

"In the 1880's the people of Brackley, a party of relatives of the first settlers, exhumed and removed a number of

caskets to the new cemetery at Brackleeroint.

I saw that

procession of express wagons pass through Covehead, on the

way to Brackley Point Cemetery, as a school boy. number I cannot say - perhaps twenty;

Despite this unusual migration, the cemetery remains a sign-

ificant reminder of the early settlers.

The