30 Historic Sites

Panmure Island Cemetery

We were looking for government grants to fix up the cemetery. We received one, and it was necessary to cut down trees to build a road to the cemetery. Our association hired a local man to cut down the trees. It took the total grant money to pay him. We were left with the wood and decided to give it to local families for firewood. Andrew MacDonald, his son-in-law Roger MacDonald, and Julian Vreeling fought over who should get the firewood. Andrew stopped the fight and no one was hurt.

People buried in the cemetery

Aitken, Agnes 1798/99 - 1813

Died crossing the ice to Lower Montague at the age of 12 - froze to death. She was the first to be buried in the cemetery.

> father was John Aitken, who lived in Lower Montague prior to

1788, and is buried at Wightman’s Point in 1799.

According to the census of 1798, Agnes was not in the home at that time, the only occupants being the father and son George. John Aitken is a forebear of Alice Fraser. In 1788 he purchased 100 acres from Montgomery for the sum of £60. The land in Lot 59 given to David Higgins was sold by him to Sir James

and William Montgomery in 1769. Source: Alice Fraser, 265 Grafton Street, Charlottetown, 894 -4397 - has done Aitken family genealogy, now living in Lower Montague.