Une naissance prématurée

Les registres de l'International Advent Church de Waterloo pour le 12 mars 1901 font état de l'acte de sépulture suivant : 

«Died at Waterloo County of Shefford Province of Quebec on the Eleventh day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and one Infant Daughter of Bert E. Phelps laborer of the aforesaid Town of Waterloo and Alice U. Boucher his wife, aged three hours And was buried on the twelfth day of the same month in the Protestant Cemetery Waterloo by me the undersigned Minister and in the presence of the subscribing witnesses Cause of death Premature Birth

                     E.G. Chadsey

                            Minister

Witnesses    Burt E. Phelps

                   Rickard Burn?». 

Noter le soulignement de certains mots clés dans le texte de l'acte et l'absence d'éléments de référence dans la marge.

 

[Summary :
The church record for the burying of a baby girl in Waterloo, Québec.]