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Date 23 décembre 1874
Comté Charlotte
Lieu Saint Stephen
Journal Saint Croix Courier
Le langage employé dans les textes est tel qu’il a été transcrit par Daniel F. Johnson à partir des entrées dans les journaux originaux.
It is our painful duty to record the death of W. Ellis McALLISTER which occurred Tuesday afternoon. He left home Monday at noon for his son's farm at Orient (Maine), some 80 miles from Milltown. Stopping all night at the house of Mr. THOMAS, Waite Township, he proceeded on his way Tuesday morn. He was met on the road by several parties who knew him and was last spoken to near Mr. LONGLEY's. He had got within four miles of the farm when he was found in his pung quite dead, A physician was called and every means used to restore circulation. His son William McALLISTER, whom he was on his way to visit, was soon on the spot. (...) to Milltown yesterday morn. The funeral will take place from his residence tomorrow 10 a.m. Mr. McA. was in his 74th year.