A Son of the Rock

There are two graveyards in Moffat, one on the northern outskirts, the other in the village itself.

There notable graves in the second of these.

John Loudon McAdam, inventor of the macademisation method of road building.

Postmaster James McGeorge, guard of the Dumfries and Edinburgh Royal Mail. He and John Goodfellow died about five miles north of Moffat in February 1831 in a ferocious snow storm while trying to get the mail to Edinburgh after abandoning their coach and horses and trying to continue on foot with the seven stone mail bags. A memorial, the ‘Postie Stone,’ lies beside the A 701 near the spot.

Also in the cemetery is the remains of one wall of the Old Kirk:-