Abbreviations used
Date February 22 1884
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Sun
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.
Central Hampstead (Queens Co.) Feb. 20 - Sunday 17th inst., Robert BLACK, M.D. died at his residence Wickham, age 81. On Friday 15th, he was stricken with paralysis from which he never rallied. He was born in Dundonald, Scotland, graduated at Edinburgh and began prqctocing his profession in his 20th year. After a successful career of 30 years, he determined to remove to America. In the spring of 1852 he arrived in St. John and proceeded to Kingston (Kings Co.) to see his brother. Soon after he purchased a farm on the St. John river near the head of Sppon Island where he has for 32 years resided and praciticed his profession.. Funeral obsequies were performed by Rev. D.W. Pickett, Episcopalian in the F.C. Baptist Church at Wickham. His remains were interred in the burying ground at Wickham. (see original)