Abbreviations used
Date August 28 1878
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper Christian Visitor
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
d. Monday 1st July, of heart disease, Mira May DYKEMAN, age 21, second d/o John DYKEMAN and Amanda F. DYKEMAN of Jemseg (Queens Co.). She died at Portland (St. John) where she had been spending a few weeks. The very Wednesday she had written for her loved ones to meet and welcome her, a large funeral profession convened on the wharf awaiting to convey her remains to their last resting place.