The Icelandic connection - 01.03.2018, Side 40

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ICELANDIC CONNECTION
Vol. 70# I
to one side so the horses ran away past
but not before the horses struck the back
of the wagon. Those people in the front
seat and the other side were not hit but
the man who was thrown out fell clear of
the wagon but the woman was somehow
tangled in the fall so she may have been
dragged. Nobody knew for certain, but
she was dead when the people could get
to her. The man who was thrown from the
wagon had been knocked senseless for a
spell and a bit bruised but was eventually
able to get up and walk.
They all went back to town to report
the accident and to take the corpse to
wait or burial and church service the
next morning. It was a sad affair as the
following Monday when she was buried
in the cemetery that had been used not far
from Cashel. I can still remember seeing
the corpse in the coffin. The horse shoe
mark on the side of her face was deep and
ugly. Mother allowed me to see it, saying
it would prepare me for life to see and
hear these things. I was nearly eight years
old.
Another memory was the reading
society being formed. Everyone pooled
their books and each took a book. Soon
after they were practicing a play from
“Madur og Kona". Who knows; maybe
this was the first attempt at acting an
Icelandic play ever tried in America. I
remember the people saying it came off
very well for the facilities and place they
had.
There had been now four of five years
that an attempt had been made to have
a religious congregation. The Grafton
“sofnudur” (congregation) had been
holding services four times a year with the
Gardar minister in attendance. Services
had been held in our house because it
was big enough to hold the members of
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