Today, the
area is a mixture of farms, nature reserves, and cottages.Many of the Isle of Skye settlers had family connections to settlers in Glengarry County on the other side of Lake St. Francis. In the early years of Huntingdon County, when water travel was one of the most convenient forms of transport, it was relatively common for Isle of Skye and Glengarry residents to travel back and forth. As a result of marriages between families in both settlements, most of those interred in the cemetery can be found to have a family connection to most all of the others listed.
Unlike most cemeteries in Huntingdon County, Isle of Skye is not affiliated with any specific church, religion, or family - but most of those buried in the cemetery were Scottish Presbyterian. According to Robert Fraser, in As Others See Us, the land for Isle of Skye Cemetery was given to the first settlers by the Mohawk Chiefs of St. Regis. He mentions that the first burial in the cemetery was in 1824 and that Mrs. Alex Grant and Benjamin Phillips were among the first to be interred. Fraser also notes finding headstones with the names Buchanan, Aubrey, Vass, Moody, Rankin. It seems those headstones have disappeared or that they are now illegible because those names do not appear on any of the existing stones or in any older cemetery list.
