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One of the things that was interesting about it was the tension in the family and around the place. John Mitchell was Scotch by background. He came of an old Scotch Covenanters family and had been in the mine since he was a boy. He had married a Roman Catholic girl some time in his youth. She was a very sweet lady and they had four or five children - tall, good looking boys and a pretty young girl of about fifteen or sixteen. He wasn't much of a churchgoer. I don't think religion had been a very vital element in his life, but it was a very important element in his wife's life. On his deathbed she persuaded him to be received into the Church. That was quite a shock, it seems to some of his friends, particularly some of his friends in the trade union. Although there were plenty of Roman Catholics in the miner's union, they were straight Roman Catholics. They were born that way. But the old Scotch, English and Welsh miners were not. They tended on the whole to be Covenanters, Presbyterians or something like that. It was quite a surprise to them and quite a surprise to some of the others when they discovered that he had been received into the Church on his deathbed.

The first I knew of it was when his body was brought into the Frank Campbell Funeral Parlor on upper Broadway, which is a very ornate establishment - very super ornate.