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Mary Florence
Mary Florence Haney
Mary Florence was born in 1875. She contracted diphtheria in 1886, at the age of eleven, and died on June 9th of that year. Her body was put in a white coffin and taken by canoe to the closest cemetery which was in Mission, and there interred in the Order of Mary Immaculate Cemetery.
After Mary died, the Haney family had a portrait commissioned based on an earlier tin-type photograph. The painting depicts the young girl sitting on a boat. This type of memorial, which is known as a "death mask portrait" was very common before the 20th century and later extended to photographs of the deceased. The Mary Florence portrait is currently on display in the Haney House parlour.
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