The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-12
NEW HAVEN WEDNESDAY, JUNE l4th, 10 M
FUNERAL OF MRS. NICHOLS.

The last sad rites of Mrs. George Kneeland Nichols, at her home, No. 98
 Courtland street, Bridgeport, were well attended on June 9. A number of rela-
 tives and friends from New York city were present. Nothing could have been simpler than the service itself-no music, a chapter read from the Revela- tion of St. John the divine-a short ad- dress on Haeven, with no personal allu-
 sions by the Rev. Francis B. Upham, who conducted the service; but to the thoughtful and cultured person present at the obsequies, there were certain; ac-
 cessories both historic and artistic which would not soon be forgotten. In the hall alongside of chairs and aconsol table upwards of two hundred years old handed down from the Seeley and Nichols families, stood another notable ! heirloom, the tall Burroughs clock, once the property of stephen Burroughs 1 III, around whose mercantile interests practically grew the k infant city of Bridgeport. Just inside the draWing room hung a portrait in oil of Mrs. | Nichols painted by Stephen Burroughs
 great-grandson, George Burroughs Tor- l rey, a strikingly correct likeness. | Carelessly on a table almost out of sight, lay huge original copy of Guil- l lim's Display of Heraldry, the eelebra- 1 ted edition of 1724, Nichols relic. 1 There were few flowers, but the rooms
 were lighted with wax tapers in silver and antique crystal Y %candelabra wreathed in smilax. The deceased was robed in her golden wedding gown of I fourteen years ago of heliotrope silk, and black thread lace, and reposed in a beautiful casket of royal purple velvet surrounded by cross and crown de-
 sign in white flowers with the word
 Mother inscribed on it in purple l flowers from her son. The burial fol-
 lowed at Nichols on historic ground
 which had been in possession of the Nichols family since 1639, and which
 has on it a substantial monument crowned with the coat of arms of Sir
 Richard Nichols, the first English gov- ernor of New York. The older resi- dents of Nichols turned out en masse
 at the cemetery and the village choir
 sang out in the open two selections,
 "Oh Think of the Home Over there" and "The Home Of the Soul" along
 with the effective committal service
 read by the Rev. MT. Upham, the son of the famous author of Moral Philoso-
 phy The day was perfect and the
 Sound could be discerned in the dis
 tance from this beautiful rural God S acre. The pail bearers were all connee- | tions of the late George Kneeland
 Nichols, the deceased's husband, and
 were from Nichols; the list was Daniel | Moss Nichols, Horace l.. Fairchild,
 Horace Nichols, Nathan Burr Curtiss,
 Lucius Nichols and Sydney Nichols.
 In this era of unusually active patriotic
 and genealogical retrospect, it is inter-
 esting to note that each one of the six pail bearers was a lineal descendant of Thomas Hooker one of the makers of
 America, who founded the constitution
 of Connecticut, after which that of
 1.-the United States was modeled; An
 drew Ward of Fairfield, one of the chief
 fonde1's of the state; "The Worshipful
 Joseph Curtiss,' the Stratford states
 man; Governor Thomas Welles, the
 fourth colonial governor of Connecti-
 cut; of Robert Bruce, through Sir George Bruce, the grandfather of Ser
 geant Francis Nichols; and of Jean
 Bouton, Marquis of Ghamilly and Mar
 shal of France in as1700.-Briigeport
 Standard. ,,s... ..