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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JEAN CAMERON'S GRAVE | Miss Cameron's Grave Miss Cameron's Grave Miss Cameron's Grave Jean Cameron's Grave |
James Struthers Mount Cameron Andrew Baird Platthorn John Yeats Mid Murray New Statistical Accounts |
017.05 | This grave is not far from Mount Cameron. Mr Ure in his History of Rutherglen and Kilbride gives the follwing acct [account] of the Lady who was interred in this grave. " This place ( Mount Cameron) formerly called Blacklaw takes its name from Mrs Jean Cameron a lady of distinguished family, character and beauty. Her zealous attachment to the house of Stuart, and the active part she took to support its interests in the year 1745 , made her well known thro' Britain. Her enemies indeed, took unjust freedom with her name, but what can the unfortunate expect from a fickle and misjudging world? The revengeful and malicious, especially if good fortune is on their side, seldom fail to put the worse construction on the purest and most disinterested motives. Mrs Cameron after the public scenes of her life were over took up her residence in the solitary and bleak retirement of Blacklaw. But this vicissitude so unfriendly to aspiring minds did not throw her into despair, retaining to the last the striking remains of a graceful beauty. She spent a considerable part of her time in the management of domestic affairs. Her whole deportment was consistent with that good breeding, unaffected politeness and friendly generosity which characterise the people of rank in the Highlands of Scotland. She was not remarkable for a more than ordinary attachment to ant System of religious opinions or mode of worship, which is not always the case with the unfortunate. Her brother and his family of all her friends paid her the greatest attentions. She died in the year 1773, and was buried at Mount Cameron among a clump of trees adjoining to the house, her grave is distinguished by nothing but a turf of grass, which is now almost equal with the ground" There are no trees at present around this grave but there is a clump near it. Altho the ground round the grave is cultivated and frequently ploughed yet the grave was never disturbed. |
| MOUNT CAMERON | Mount Cameron Mount Cameron |
James Struthers occupier Andrew Baird Platthorn John Yeats Mid Murray |
017.05 | A farm house in the occupation of James Struthers and the property of Miss Stuart of Torrance, it was once the residence of Mrs Jean Cameron from whom it takes its name. |
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Blacklaw or Mount Cameron. New Stat. Acct. [ Statistical Account] page 887[ after list of names for Jean Cameron's Grave ]
in small stamp N. H.
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