Abbreviations used
Date June 14 1873
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
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 Hebrew funeral, the first that has ever taken place in St. John was witnessed yesterday by a large number of persons. The remains of David HARTT, a young s/o Solomon HARTT were interred in the new Jewish Burial Place at Rural Cemetery yesterday afternoon. There the service was conducted according to the Hebrew ritual by Nathan GREEN, father of the deaceased and a Montreal gentleman, (see original) (Rural Cemetery is today known as Fernhill Cemetery, Westmorland Road, Saint John)