Do you have a subscription to Findmypast? You can access The Newspaper Archives through them. If you don't you can join for 10 quid a month. Sometime they do it for 1. It's definitely worth the money. Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 11 June 1894.
The interment of the remains of the late councillor, William Jackson of Sunderland, and Elmwood, Harrogate, took place at the Harrogate Cemetery on Saturday. The morning opened with a drizzling rain, which continued throughout the day. The cortege left the residence of the deceased and proceeded to Christ Church, where an impressive service was conducted by the vicar, the Rev. R.W. Fawkes. Along the route of the procession there were signs of regret at the death of one so generous, and blinds were closely drawn in many instances as a token of the respect and esteem in which the deceased gentleman was held. The remains of the deceased were met at the entrance to the church by the Rev. R. W. Fawkes and the boys of the choir. During the service the hymn 'The saints of God, their conflict past' was sung. The solemn ceremony being ended at the church, the mournful procession proceeded to Harrogate Cemetery. Notwithstanding, the inclement state of the weather, there was a large attendance of the friends of the deceased. The freemasons (of whom the deceased was a member) and various social and athletic clubs were represented, and several of the gentry in the town sent their carriages. Amongst those present were Mr. J. J. Bell, Councillors Henderson, Short, Burlinson, Messrs R S Rownthwaite (surveyor), C W P Barker (Clerk to the Sunderland magistrates), George Andrews, J J Bain (Secretary of the Licensed Victuallers), and G Carver (vice president of the Licensed Victuallers, Sunderland). The chief mourners were Messrs A Jackson, W Jackson, T A Page, G R Bagnall, P Wilson, Halfnight, F M Bowey (town clerk of Sunderland), Andrews, Hall, Haggart, Harrison and Page. There were about 30 mourning coaches, &c., and the floral tributes were numerous and costly, three of the carriages being filled with wreathes, &c. Mr J Checkley, Harrogate, was undertaker.
All the licensed properties owned by the late Coun. Jackson in Sunderland, Shields and Newcastle, and the chief offices in John Street, the Grand Hotel, Bridge Street, being the only exception, were closed on Saturday and the blinds lowered, in consequence of the funeral. A number of representative gentlemen left the Central Railway Station on Saturday morning in order to attend the interment of the deceased.
