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Funeral of a Rechabite.—On Monday last, the funeral rites were performed to the wife of Captain Robert Mann, of the Dundee and London trading schooner Courier, by the Rechabiteg of Dundee, of which she was a leading member. Prom the circumstance of its being the first funeral in Dundee at which females marched in procession to the resting-place, an extraordinary excitement prevailed ; and one would have imagined that it was some great public meeting that was about to take place. Along Reform-street, the west-end of the lligh-street, Castle-street, and at the shore, tne crowd was densely planted, so that it was almost impossible to get a free passage. After depositing Mrs. Mann's remains in the grave, hymns were sung, and the crowd dispersed in quietness. About 200 persons accompanied the funeral to the burying-ground, of which 150 were Rechabites, and of these betwixt 40 and 50 were females. They were arranged four deep, two females leaning betwixt the arms of two men. The males had a white satin sash over their shoulders, and the females were stored In Mack, with black bonnets, sub, and “ weepers'’Wifcmifee Paper*
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London Coronet
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Mar 27, 1841
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