. The history of the Fife Pitcairns : with transcripts from old charters . fit to go out alone, went with him. He had a slight strokeof paralysis, got gradually worse, and passed peacefullyaway, after ten days illness, to the inexpressible grief ofhis wife and children, on the 15th of December 1892,aged 71 years. What he was to his parish many know, what he wasto his friends they can tell; but what he was to his wifeand family no one can realise except those nearest to was a perfect husband and father. Extracts from The Eccles Advertiser. THE LATE CANON PITCAIRN. The sudden bereavement
. The history of the Fife Pitcairns : with transcripts from old charters . fit to go out alone, went with him. He had a slight strokeof paralysis, got gradually worse, and passed peacefullyaway, after ten days illness, to the inexpressible grief ofhis wife and children, on the 15th of December 1892,aged 71 years. What he was to his parish many know, what he wasto his friends they can tell; but what he was to his wifeand family no one can realise except those nearest to was a perfect husband and father. Extracts from The Eccles Advertiser. THE LATE CANON PITCAIRN. The sudden bereavement into which the inmates of the vicaragehave been plunged has been the chief topic of conversation sinceThursday last, and sympathetic references, some of them mosttouching, have been made on all hands to the sad event. Con-dolences to the stricken widow and family have been numerous,and must have proved sources of consolation to the recipients intheir grief. Evidences of the sincerity of feeling in many of thelate vicars parishioners were not wanting on Sunday during the. CANON PITCAIRN. 1892. CANON PITCAIRNS LIFE AT ECCLES. 321 services in the old church, and many were the moist eyes in thecongregation who listened to the solemn tones of the organ in the Dead March. Outside in different parts of the borough flags werefloating half-mast from the various public buildings. Two of thesewere hoisted on the Town Hall, one was on the mast on the ParishChurch tower, another on St Andrews tower; at the Eccles CentralConservative and Liberal Clubs; at the Eccles Working Mensand the Junior Liberal Clubs ; on the top of the Co-operative Society,and at the Union Offices, Patricroft. Extract from a sermon by one of the neighbouring clergy :— To him the tolling bell reiterated the warning, The one shallbe taken and the other left. As the minister who was left, hewould like to say of the minister who had been taken, that thedeath of Canon Pitcairn, the vicar of this ancient parish of Eccles,
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