Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-27
FUNERAL OF VICTIMS.
Services Over Remains OF Captain and Mrs
Nash Held at Harrington.

Boston, July CO. n. Taylor in the
Sunday Globe. thus describes the inn
pressive funeral service over the re-
nains OF Capt. and Mrs. Nash at Har
rington. Me, Saturday.
AT mid-afternoon, under sulkng
rain clouds, the bodies of Capt. and
Mrs. Nash. slain while asleep aboard
the barkentinc Herbert Fuller, We're
land side by side in the double grave
prepared for them beneath a Norway
pine.
1t had rained In fitful showers
throughout the forenoon and up to
the time the procession OF citizens
moved away from the BAPTIST church
for the cemetery. Then the sun pierced
the great lunches of sooty Napor as If
To beam in hcuediction upon the sor-
rowing villagers. Church bells were
tolled. men and women wcpt and COM
ranions Of the dead couple faced the
bridge of the trout brook that pays
tribute To the river In which the Her
bert Fuller took her first plunge, and
swung to the northeast over the road
which all who die in Harrington must
some day travel.
The bodies were brought TO town
lttSl IlEiiI III Two tkI4ItSS NdERBS. IL
was past the midnight hour when the
drivers pulled up in the square. Until
a lantern could be fetched to examine
the Baskets. the intention was to
place them on a catafalque near the
pulpit in the Baptist church. but an
Investigation discovered a rent in one
OF the caskets, probably caused by
gas. There was no pcrceptiblc odor
but fearing there might be. arrange
nlentS were made for two men to
watch over the remains out of doors
Heavy sail cloth was brought to cover
the boxes. and this morning they were
placed in two hearses. one being
brought from Mills Ridge.
All places of business were closed
after l.. even the burberry pickers
ca the table land four miles from the
village laying aside their pals and
donning their best out of respect to
the couple whom every one loved
Housewives prepared the noon meal
half an hour earlier than usual, and
at one these good women might have
been seen, with gowns caught up from
the long wet grass stepping carefully
in the direction of the brown Spircd
church. Carriages were at that time
ruinbling in from outlying farms from
the BURBERRY barrens. and from towns
% miles away.
The church one-half hour later was
filed to the doors. Sea captains were
there who had more than once bcltcd
the earth in Maine built ships. The
sight of the southern cross was no
new sign in the heavens to many of
thpSn 60 rrhnNr ', oI 4
With ice berss off the Horn. had faced
dangers in every sea and had dropped
anchors in every great port of the
world.
At 80 the two hearses, hanked by
the 16 pallbearcrs selected from Har-
rington. Milbridge and CherryfieId,
started for the home of the mourning
mothers and brothers on the Plains
road, and at LIS reached the. church.
followed by the immediate relatives in
carriages and afoot.
The first carriage contained Henry
Nash and his mother. Irving Ray and
his mother The next carriage con-
tanned Capts. T.. l.. and w. f. Nash
and their wives
The four carriages following con-
veyed near relatives and the % or
more persons afoot We're all linked to
the family by ties of blood and mar
rage.
The Baptist church is large for such
town as Harrington, but it was none
too large today. and settees and chairs
had to be found to accommodate the
overflow
The chancel rail was festooned with
boa of flowers, while piled on a table
near the speakers stand were crosses
harps and pillows neatly contrived
from roses. pansies, pinks and elder
berry blossoms.
Inc services We're opened PROMPTLY
at Z by Rev. Charles l.. Rogers the
Methodist minister. who offered a
touching prayer. The hush of the
deep words fell over the mourners
Tor all in the church were mourners.
AS Mr. Rogers. in his prayer, touched
on the childhood of the captain and
his Wife heart touching sobs could be