Gravestone of George RENNIE, father of Alexander RENNIE. The grave stands in its own large plot in Prestonkirk Church graveyard. The inscription reads:

GEORGE RENNIE ESQ.
OF PHANTASSIE
DIED ON 10TH OF OCTOBER 1828
AGED 79 YEARS
IN THIS COUNTRY SO CELEBRATED FOR ITS FERTILE
SOIL, AND THE PERFECTION OF ITS CULTIVATION,
MR RENNIE WAS ACKNOWLEDGED BY HIS
CONTEMPORARIES TO BE THE MOST SKILFUL AND
SUCCESSFUL AGRICULTURIST. NOR WAS THE REPUTATION
HE SO JUSTLY MERITED, CONFINED TO HIS NATIVE LAND.
HE CORRESPONDED WITH, AND WAS VISITED NOT ONLY BY
THE LEADING AGRICULTURISTS OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND,
BUT MANY NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN FROM FRANCE,
RUSSIA, GERMANY, POLAND, HUNGARY
AND OTHER EUROPEAN STATES
SEEKING INFORMATION TO IMPROVE THEIR DOMAINS,
WERE HOSPITABLY RECEIVED BY HIM, AND INSTRUCTED IN
HIS THEORIES AND PRACTISE. HE PERFORMED ZEALOUSLY
AND IMPARTIALLY THE DUTIES OF A MAGISTRATE,
AND WAS EVER READY TO ADVISE OR ASSIST THOSE,
WHO SOUGHT RELIEF FROM DIFFICULTIES OR MISFORTUNE.
DEEPLY LAMENTED BY HIS WIFE,
FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND DEPENDENTS,
HIS MEMORY WILL LONG BE CHERISHED AND RESPECTED.
ON THE 13TH OF JANUARY 1853 DIED
MARION; WIFE OF THE ABOVE, AGED 78 YEARS,
CLOSING A LIFE PASSED IN THE FULFILMENT OF EVERY
CONJUGAL AND MATERNAL DUTY HER LOSS IS SINCERELY
REGRETTED BY HER FAMILY, AND BY ATTACHED AND
APPRECIATED FRIENDS, MANY UNOSTENTATIOUS
LIBERALITES AND CHARITIES EXEMPLIFIED THE TRULY
SELF DENYING BENEVOLENCE OF HER DISPOSITION.

Photo by Rod Mackay.