Abbreviations used
Date October 2 1866
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper Morning 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.
d. Sunday 30th Sept., at residence of his daughter, Mrs. TIPPEN, Damascus (Kings Co.) James SIMPSON, age 82, father of Capt. William SIMPSON of this city. Funeral Tuesday, 2nd Oct., at Rural Cemetery, front gate, half past 3 o'clock. (Rural Cemetery is today known as Fernhill Cemetery, Westmorland Road (St. John))