The Bangor Daily Whig and Courier:  June 21, 1883.


STATE NEWS

Hancock.

Mr. James W. Scott, of Castine, fell dead at his work recently; cause, disease of the 
heart.  Deceased was a member of Amity Lodge and was buried under masonic honors, Over 
one hundred Masons following him to his last resting place.  There were representatives 
from ten different lodges present at his funeral.

A Blue hill correspondent thus chronicles the death of an old sailor: Capt. John Verrill, 
of Bass Harbor, Tremont, came in here as pilot to a schooner, on Saturday, June 16th.  
After the schooner had anchored he took his boat, and came up to the village, called 
on Capt. Higgins of the Copper and Gold Exchange, who was an old acquaintance, 
bought some articles and then set sail in his boat for his home.  He had gone 
about half way to the steamboat wharf, when he was seen to unstep his mast, and while 
stepping back to the stern, he pitched forward and lay prostrate.  A boat from a vessel 
near by, at once came to him, took his boat in tow, and came to the town wharf, 
when Coroner Stevens was summoned, also the municipal officers and physicians.  
The verdict was that he died of heart disease.  We learn that for the past fifty 
years he has been in command of a vessel every year.  He was seventy-six years of 
age, and leaves eight children.  His friends were at once notified by telegraph and 
came after the body, which had been dressed and place in a casket.  They left with it 
on a fishing smack on Sunday morning.


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