{"id":6517,"date":"1928-10-25T12:27:00","date_gmt":"1928-10-25T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/dev2\/mcdonald-stephen-d1881\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:50:04","slug":"mcdonald-stephen-d1881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/mcdonald-stephen-d1881\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald, Stephen Hugh (Captain Hugh) (d. 1928)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is another great example of the restoration.\u00a0 The gravestone can be found on the left side of the cemetery, in the 3rd<\/span> row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Captain McDonald was a Mariner and Businessman based out of the port of Souris<\/span>. He was twice married, first to Elizabeth Mary Worthington who died shortly after childbirth, leaving two children; Hugh Stephen and Catherine C., who died in infancy. Catherine and her mother were buried in this cemetery. Captain McDonald’s second wife was Mary Ann (Bornish<\/span>) MacDonald from Pisquid<\/span>, who as a widow remarried to James Gillis. Stephen and Mary Ann had an infant daughter Mary C. whose remains were also interred here. Mary Ann worked as a Priest’s housekeeper prior to her marriage. At Mary Ann’s passing in 1925, her remains were interred in the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Charlottetown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capt<\/span>. McDonald’s son Hugh left P.E.I. for the Boston States and was successful in life up to his passing on October 25, 1928. His remains were buried in the Boston area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His oldest daughter Mary B. married Dr. William J. P. MacMillan M.D., C.M. F.A.C.S., L.M.C.C., LL.D., a Charlottetown physician and surgeon. He was interested in political life and was elected six times in eight attempts to the P.E.I. Legislative Assembly. Dr. MacMillan became premier during the Island’s worst economic depression. He implemented many relief programs and greatly increased government expenditures to relieve needy Islanders. Click on on the link to find additional information on Dr. MacMillan’s Career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of Dr. MacMillan’s sons-in-law also served the province and country. M. Alban<\/span> Farmer was a member of the P.E.I. Legislative Assembly and Executive Council. The Hon. C. St. Clair Trainor<\/span> was a member of the Assembly and served as Chief Justice of the P.E.I. Supreme Court. A great-granddaughter, Beth MacMillan, also served several terms in the Assembly. Alban<\/span> Farmer’s son Michael was the first mayor of the Town of Stratford, P.E.I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is another great example of the restoration.\u00a0 The gravestone can be found on the left side of the cemetery, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1467,1455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-captains-seafaring","category-family-histories"],"gutslider_comments":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8729,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions\/8729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}