Source type: gravestone photograph (manual transcription)
Original filename: john McKinnon.jpeg
Date photographed: unknown (summer, based on vegetation)
Location: Campbell Cemetery, Seafoam, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada

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[Top panel, carved open-book motif, two pages:]
Left page: "Blessed are the dead"
Right page: "Who die in the Lord"

[Main inscription:]
In memory of
JOHN McKINNON
A native of Isle of Mull Scotland
& emigrated to this Island in 1808

[Decorative flourish with "DIED" medallion]

Oct. 9, 1871.
AEt. 81.

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Transcription notes:
- "AEt." is the abbreviation for Latin "aetatis" (aged). AEt. 81 = died aged 81.
- "this Island" = Prince Edward Island, Canada (standard PEI usage on 19th-century stones).
- Calculated birth year: 1871 - 81 = approximately 1790.
- Stone material appears to be white marble or painted limestone, in good condition.
- Open-book carving at top is a common Victorian Christian motif.
- "Isle of Mull" is an island in the Inner Hebrides, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
- Emigration year of 1808 is consistent with large Highland/Island emigration waves to PEI.

Cemetery note:
Although the stone reads "emigrated to this Island in 1808," it stands in a mainland Nova Scotia
cemetery. "This Island" most likely refers to Prince Edward Island or Cape Breton Island, not
mainland Nova Scotia. This is significant for genealogical research connecting this McKinnon to
the PEI-based McKinnon line already documented in the archive.

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