Abbreviations used
Date January 18 1893
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.
There was a large attendance of citizens at the funeral of Capt. William RISING held from his late residence 341 Union St. yesterday. Union Lodge, Portland, F.& A.M. attended in a body. The services at the house and the grave at the Rural (Fernhill) Cemetery were conducted by Rev. J.J. Baker, the choir of the Leinster Street Baptist Church singing some appropriate hymns. The pall bearers were Capt. LUDLOW, James REYNOLDS, C.E. BURNHAM, Gilbert DAVIS, J.W. SULIS and Thomas L. HAY.