5 Mar 1956 Alexander M. MacMillan
Alexander (Al) MacMillan’s passing will bring sadness to his many friends at Cape George and in Antigonish. He had been ill for several months, having first been stricken last summer at hsi cottage in Cape George. AT that time he was hospitalized in Saint Martha’s and always he spoke his gratefulness for the sympathetic care which he received. When he was able to return to the States he rallied for several months until he was again seriously ill He died on March 5th, at the Veterans Hospital in Boston. Throughout his long and useful life his life for the Cape and its traditions was passionately manifested. He had built a summer cottage on the site of his ancestral home and his own birthplace. His joy was always complete as he looked across Cape Saint George Bay to the shores of Cape Breton. In his passing a bit of the old Cape died with him. Alexander MacMillan was the son of John George MacMillan and Henrietta Janet MacDonald, both of Cape George. He was a first cousin of both the late Mrs. Charles N. Wilkie and the late Davide R. Graham of his town. When Al was a young lad he moved to Boston with his family and proved himself a hard and industrious worker. During the First World War he enlisted in the U.S. Regular ARmy in the infantry division and was seriously wounded in the Chateau Thierry drive. For singular and conspicuous bravery at that time he was decorated by both the French and American Governments. He leaves his widow, the former Sarah Hume of Cambridge, Mass., and Prince Edward Island. Also surviving him are three sisters and a brother. Funeral services were held on March 8th at Union Square Presbyterian Church in Somerville, with interment at the Cambridge Cemetery.