1842.
British Burial Ground in Macao.
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the factory, read the funeral service at the grave; and the whole detail of the funeral was conducted with decency and respectability by the English Hervants of the factory. Rebecca, John, and I attended their dear mamma to the tomb; we were loath to forsake her remains. Our Chinese domestics. and teachers also, voluntarily accompanied the funeral. Our Mary was much esteemed by all who ever conversed with her. She had an excellent understanding, and a well-principled heart. Mr. and Mrs. Molony have to day joined in a letter of condolence, saying, that in their voyage out, they had an opportunity of ascertaining Mrs. Morrison's Christian disposition, and were then much comforted by her society. ** Sunday, June 17th. To- day, every person in the English society, on account of Mary's death, appear- ed in mourning at church.”—Memoirs of Morrison, vol. II. page 101.
This spot, rendered sacred by the remains of many who were very dear and much loved by those who yet live, was well chosen, being sequestered, and so surrounded by a high wall as to be screened from public view. It is an oblong plat of ground, say fifty yards by thirty, and partly shaded by trees standing close to the wall, which is covered with the cereus and other flowers. Nearly two-thirds of the ground is already occupied; but over most of the graves there is no- thing to indicate even the names of their tenants. These are chiefly the graves of seamen, who have died in the hospitals. But the care of friends and relatives has here and there erected mementoes, with Inscriptions to perpetuate the memory of those for whom they mourn, The whole number of these inscriptious is perhaps 75; they exhibit a variety of style even greater than what is usual in burial grounds bearing dates from June 10th, 1821 (the day of Mrs. Morrison's death), down to the present time. A few of the names, with the dates. of decease, we have copied.
Charles Graham
George Cruttenden Charles J. Wheler Mrs. Jane Howard
Janies Thomas Robarts
R. C. Plowden
Daniel Beale
Sir W. Fraser
T. T. Forbes
S. 11. Monson
Donald Mackenzie
Frederick Ibery
Robert Morrisen D. D.
Mrs Isabella Anne Templeton
1821.
Oct. 3d, March 23d, 1822.
Dec. 4th, 1822. Feb. 23d, 1823.
Jau. 28th, 1825. Sept. 21st, 1825.
Jau. 4th, 1827.
Dec. 22d, 1827.
Aug. 9th, 1829.
Aug. 9th, 1829.
Oct. 30th, 1830.
Nov. 23d, 1853333.
Aug. 4th, 1834.
July 29th, 1835.
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