Abbreviations used
Date March 9 1893
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.
Havelock (Kings Co.) March 8 - Charles KEITH, one of Caanan's (Queens Co.) oldest and most respected residents, died on Monday of inflammation of the lungs. His funeral took place this afternoon from his residence. The deceased was 84 years old and the last and youngest of a family of 14 children, there being 12 boys and 2 girls in the family. He is also the last of the old stock of Keiths who first settled at Canaan and one of the family mentioned in the 'Sun' last summer, who, in company with his eleven brothers, mowed with his father in the hay field. He leaves an aged wife and three daughters, Mrs. Eldon MULLIN of Fredericton being one of them.