Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-19
FUNERAL OF CHARLES KEAN-IN.
TFRESTING INCIDENTS.

The London Telegram, in describing the
funeral Of the late Charles John Kean,
saws: "Mrs. Kean had summoned the
necessary fortitude to follow her husband
TO the grave near Keydell, the resi
dence he had bought for his mother TO
end her DAYS in. At ten o'clock the hearse
aud three mourning coaches, followed by
string of private carriages, left Queensbor-
ough terrace for the Waterloo Station. The
widow, accompanied by Miss Kean, Miss
Chapman and Mr.. Plat, occupied the first
coach in the second were the Rev. DIR.
Gatty, Sir William Ferguson and Mr..
Young and in the third Capt. Barrow. DR..
Joy, Che family physician and Mr.. Geo.
Everett, who has been professionally asso-
ciated with Mr. Kean for seventeen years.
The Portsmouth train, which leaves Water
loo station at halEpast eleven, took the
party of mourners 10 Rowland's Castle,
little station which is the last on the route
before Havant. Few passengers were
cognizant of the fact that the hearse, denu-
ded of it's nodding sable plumes, and
shunted on a trucE: TO the end of the train,
bore within it the body of poor Charles
Kean and those who were told the truth,
heard it with 3 regretful interest. From
Rowland's Castle to Catherington Church,
the road lies through the prim little viii
lage of Horndean, which has almost az
many clipped ewes as it has houseroofs;
and these last, being all peaked and slo-
ping, and Of about the same height as the
well-grown trees before mentioned, seem
to be one family with them, and to
have sprung up together Horndean is
nearly four miles from the railway sta
ton, aud Catherington Church is another
mile or so beyond Horndesn-its square
tower and high red-tiled roof, with an odd,
homely-looking easement in the midst OF
it, crowning hill. At corners of the road,
country people, with their scarlet-cloaked
children, stood in little groups to see the
funeral procession SO by, and in Horndean
where all the hepses and shops had their
shutters partially closed, two or three open
carriages of the village kind tackled them
selves to the end Of the line. The vicar
of Catherington, the Rev. Thomas Baugh,
met the body at the church; hut at the re-
quest of Mrs. Kean, he had relinquished
his Office for the day 10 DR.. Gatty, sub-dean
OF No-k and vicar OF Ecclestieid, one OF
the oldest friends of the departed. The
church-a very small one-Was nearly
filled, some addition TO the local congrega,
ton having been made by the attendance
of the company from the Portsmouth The
ater, headed by the manager, Mr.. Harry
Rutley, one of the Warmest admirers OF
Charles Keans histroinic talents. The viii
lage choir was accompanied in the hymn
by Mrs Baugh, wife of the clergyman, and
her place "a organist was then yielded to
Mr.. Collins, an amateur, who had requested
permission 10 play the Dead March, and
who, as a friend, had come down from Lon
don for that purpose The details of the
funeral, simple in appearance, but needing
some Judgment and care to ensure that very
character Of simplicity, were carried out
by Mr.. d. Butler, Of Harrington street,
with all the unobtrusive attention that
could have been wished. A calm and al
most bright day, the feeble wintry sun
struggling now aud then TO assert its power,
gave place to profound darkness before the
mourners we're on their journey back by
| rail from Rowland Castle to london"