Abbreviations used
Date March 27 1884
County Westmorland
Place Sackville
Newspaper Chignecto Post
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.
A sudden death took place at Upper Dorchester (West. Co.) on Friday last. Ernest HICKS s/o Isaac HICKS went to his father's barn about ten o'clock. A few minutes after his mother called him, but without response. He was shortly after found dead by his mother on the barn floor. Death is supposed to have been caused by heart disease. The funeral took place Sunday, the pall bearers being G.A. TINGLEY, T. BUCK, J.E. TINGLEY, M. SCURR, B. MARVIN and C.N. BLACK.