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 |  Subject: One Of The Shakers’ Last Three Members Has Died. Now The Storied Sect Is Verging On Extinction  Tue Jan 10, 2017 8:44 am | |
| One Of The Shakers’ Last Three Members Has Died. Now The Storied Sect Is Verging On Extinction
January 10, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
 One of the last three remaining members of the dwindling Shaker sect died Monday. Sister Frances Carr died at the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake in New Gloucester, Maine, “after a brief battle with cancer,” according to a statement on the community’s website. It continued, “The end came swiftly and with dignity surrounded by the community and her nieces.” Carr was 89. Carr was a member of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearance, a Christian group formed in 1747 in Manchester, England. They earned the name the Shakers when critics began calling them “Shaking Quakers” because of “their ecstatic and violent bodily agitation in worship,” according to Sabbathday Lake’s website. The Shakers eventually abandoned this particular dancing-style worship, but the congregation adopted the term, according to the Associated Press. (READ MORE) |
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