Lily's Story
“Not that it was meant to be, for none of the local ministers would consent to give Sophie Potts, infidel and blasphemer, a Christian burial in the non-denominational cemetery, and most gentlemen of public esteem (and ambition) publicly announced their support for the clergy’s stand. However, the son of the Methodist minister who had baptized Sophie and ferried her through Sabbath School in Goderich agreed to come down and hold a service in the Potts’ home and to superintend the interment. The g...ood weather prevailed, despite the odds, and luckily so, for the several hundred mourners who drifted in one by one from the township, hamlets, backwaters and (thinly disguised) from the respectable avenues of the village were pleased to stand in the sunshine and hear the sacred homilies tolled once again for one amongst them so rudely taken away. Reeve-elect Dowling was there, and even walked solemnly behind the horse-drawn hearse all the way to the gravesite where the closed coffin was lowered with earnest gentility into the wide earth.MoreLess
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