CHAP. XX. 



HIS FUNERAL. 



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12tli of August, 1848, in the sixty-seventh year of his 

 age. When all was over, Eobert wrote to Edmund 

 Pease, " With deep pain I inform you, as one of his 

 oldest friends, of the death of my dear father this 

 morning at 12 o'clock, after about ten days' illness from 

 severe fever." Mr. Starbuck, who was also present, 

 wrote : " The favourable symptoms of yesterday morning 

 were towards evening followed by a serious change for 

 the worse. This continued during the night, and early 

 this morning it became evident that he was sinking. 

 At a few minutes before 12 to-day he breathed his last. 

 All that the most devoted and unremitting care of Mrs. 

 Stephenson, and the skill of medicine could accomplish, 

 has been done, but in vain." 



George Stephenson' s remains were followed to the 

 grave by a large body of his workpeople, by whom he 

 was greatly admired and beloved. They remembered 

 him as a kind master, who w r as ever ready actively to 

 promote all measures for their moral, physical, and 

 mental improvement. The inhabitants of Chesterfield 

 their respect for the deceased by suspending 



TRINITY CHURCH, CHESTERFIELD. 



