PETERSFIELD, Saturday, August 31.
ODDFELLOWS’ FUNERAL.—On Tuesday the last solemn rites of sepulture took place upon the remains of Mr. Samuel Morrant, aged 34, late woodman, of Durford, a member of the Loyal Pride of the Valley Lodge of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows. The members, numbering between twenty and thirty, assembled at one o’clock at their lodgeroom, at the Dolphin Hotel, from whence they proceeded in full regalia on to Sheet, where they met the coffin, attended by the relatives and friends of the deceased. having formed in order, the funeral procession wended its way to the grounds of the New Cemetery, where the Rev. Henry Haigh (honorary member) was in attendance, who impressively read the beautiful service for the dead, and the solemn scene terminated.
Ancestry shows the Death registration of Samuel Murrant age 34yrs at Midhurst