Rathbone Uncovered

[Linda Anderson]

(09-19-2020 02:14 PM)IrishJim011 Wrote:  

(09-18-2020 08:47 PM)AussieMick Wrote:  Thomas Hardy short story on same subject
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Grave...st_(Hardy)

What an interesting short story! Thank you for sharing that.

Thank you for the story, AussieMick. Sad story with a sad ending.

As to the burial of Michael Coleman at the crossroads in Mount Olivet Cemetery, I remembered that the crossroads were actually in a Catholic cemetery. At one time the Catholic Church did not allow suicides to be buried in Church land. I’m glad that Michael was buried with his parents, Mary and James Coleman, and his Aunt Margaret (James’s sister who was Seward’s servant) but I wonder how that happened. Perhaps it was because his parents had at least two children who went into religious orders, Rev. James Coleman who died in 1899 and Sister Mary Nativity who died soon after Michael on July 8, 1932. Maybe the Church took into account his state of mind. At any rate, the Church has thankfully changed its thinking on this matter.