Old Catholic Cemetery Stone #11 Alexander McAdam Dimensions: 47 ½”x20 ½” Orientation: N/A Carver: J McIsaac Inscription: In Memory/ of/ ALEXANDER McADAM/ Died/ November 11, 1861/ Æ. 77 yrs. His son/ ALEXANDER/ Died/ Dec. 28, 1888/ Aged 25 years/ J. McIsaac/ Condition: Much of the inscription is barely legible if at all. The lower half of the stone however reads easier than the top. The carving at the top of the stone – a vaulted inset featuring a downward facing dove, and Agnus Dei motif, and two angels – is still visible but very worn. Alexander McAdam (the Elder) was, at the time of the 1838 census, living in the town of Dorchester (Antigonish). He was the head of rather large family of twelve – five sons, five daughters, himself and his wife – and owned seventy acres of cultivated land, two hundred acres of wilderness land, thirty heads of cattle, two horses, thirty sheep, and nine pigs. Such assets placed him well ahead of others on the census at that time. Mandi Hayne (edited by Christopher Greencorn) [ Back ]