Toponymie | Canton de Potton | Place Names

Scattered and broken tombstones lie on a small hill on land once owned by Thomas Gilman (1738-1828), who arrived in Potton around 1800 and lived in the area of West Potton.  His son, William C. Gilman (1777-1832) was Potton's first doctor, in addition to being a trained surveyor and an innkeeper!

Tombstones here bear the names of Pike, Jenks, Elkins, Darling, Walker and Warner.  The Gilman Cemetery is also called the Sargent Cemetery, though there are only two graves here by this name.  The cemetery is located in dense woods near Chemin de la Vallée-Missisquoi, just before the Campground located on the road.  Records show that the grave of Ephraim Elkins who died in 1819 is likely the oldest in this cemetery, which sadly, has been abandoned.  Many headstones are broken, or are in very poor condition.  The Gilman stones once found in this cemetery were removed and were re-grouped in the Mansonville Cemetery. 

The Gilman family settled in the area of Dunkin, along the banks of the Missisquoi River.