^3 Jc>v «j^f . Burnett 



Buried at SoUthboro irz 



Many Boston people wont to Sovlttibofo 



early this afternoon for the funeral o£ | 

 John Torrey Burnett, who dlpd In this 

 city Sunday. Th.^ services, held In St. 

 Mark's Kpisfopal ohuroh, were conducted 

 by Kev. \\llliani Greennuph Thayer^ 

 D.D., headniastirr of SI, Mark's School, 

 and he was assisted by Itev. Robert F, 

 Cheney, curate of tl«3 parish. 



The music was by the choir of the 

 church and the hymns used were "Ten 

 Thousand Times Ten Thousand," "Son 

 of My Soul," and "The Strife Is O'er," 

 all of these favorites of Mr. Burnett. 

 The burial was In the Burnett family lot 

 in the adjoining churchyard. 



Those selected to act as honorary pall- 

 bearers were Judge James A. Lowell, 

 Charles B. Barnes, Quincy A. Shaw, 

 Stephen V. R. Crosby, Robert H. Clark, 

 Robert Saltonstall, Thomas S. Bradlee, 

 Matthew Luce, Roger Araory and Waldo 

 B. Fay, the latter of Southboro. 



The ushers, all of them nephews of Mr. 

 Burnett, were Ceorse Hall Burnett, 

 Charles F. Choate and Harry Burnett, 

 aU of Southboro; Henry P. Kidder of 

 Concord, James Ames of Wayland, 

 George Peabody Gardner, Jr., of Brook- 

 line and Stanley Cunninierham of Milton. 



Those to bear the body Into and out 

 of the church were persons close to Mr. ' 

 Burnett In his activities: A. Derby Law- 

 fence of Waban and Charles B. Ba«ley, 

 ilerbert Schnare, Michael R. Maley, 

 Patrick M. Salmon and Daniel F. Har- 

 ring-ton, all of Southboro. 



John Torrey Burnett of Southboro, 

 former postrnaster of Boston and presi- 

 dent of th» Joseph Burnett Company, 

 manufacturing chemists of this city, died 

 at 100 Beacon street, in an apartment 

 which his family had taken for the winter. 

 He was in his .sixiy-flrst year. 



For many years Mr. Burnett was prom 

 inenl in the business and political life c! 

 Poston and Southboro. A Democrat, he 



