Aet. 43, to a woman of letters. Mary Blake Moore’s funeral on 30 May 1895 was held at the Parish Church of Carnacon. All of her children, her son-in-law, and several Blakes followed the cortege to the Moore family crypt of Kiltoom, on a little hill overlooking Lough Carra, where she was laid to rest. Maurice was the only Moore to be afterwards burled there.
George Moore described the experience in “My Own Funeral” (Lippincott’s Magazine, November 1901). He claimed he was not deeply grieved by his mother’s passing but irritated by the presence of family members.
Predicting his own death by 1930, he told of arrangements to have his ashes spread under the feet of donkeys on Hampstead Heath.
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