Abbreviations used
Date October 27 1881
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper Daily News
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.
Quite a few coffins, containing remains of deceased parties having living relatives in Saint John city are being exhumed at the Old Burying Ground and reinterred in Rural Cemetery (Fernhill Cemetery) Members of the family of late Hugh JOHNSON were recently thus transplanted. Yesterday, Alex. LOCKHART had the remains of Edward LOCKHART his father and Margaret Eliza LOCKHART and James Henry LOCKHART, his sister and brother, respectively taken up and transferred to the Rural Cemetery. By an odd co-incidence, Edward Lockhart who was 48 years old at the time of his first burial on 27th Oct. 1833 is thus reinterred on the 48th anniversary of that event.