Jos.
B. Ladd are appointed a Committee to make all necessary arrangements for
procuring and erecting a suitable monument to the memory of the late Dr.
Muir."[129]

An old table gravestone with its inscribed eulogy formerly marked the
spot where Dr. Muir was buried under the pulpit. It was removed to the
burying ground to the lot beside the tombs of his wife and children
after the restoration of the church building following the fire of 1835.
A mural tablet under the gallery on the north wall now bears eloquent
testimony to his beloved memory.

Dr. Muir's widow was allowed to continue on in the manse where she
conducted a school for several years. Near the end of her life she moved
from the manse with expressions of gratitude, and her daughters took up
and continued the school for some years after her death. These ladies
might have stepped out of the pages of Barrie's _Quality Street_ so
gentle and so inadequately equipped were they to battle with cold
dollars and cents and naughty children. Eleven years after the good
doctor's death, this announcement in the _Gazette_ shows Dr. Harrison
and Mr. Hallowell giving a helping hand:

Female Board School (The Misses Muir)

Tendering to the public their grateful acknowledgements for the
liberal patronage hitherto received, take this method of giving
notice that their school will re-commence, on Monday next the 5th of
September. The course of instruction will be as heretofore, and very
similar to that of all other respectable Female Seminaries in the
District.

The higher classes besides being examined twice a week by the Rev.
Mr. Harrison, will have also the privileges of attending the lectures
of Mr. Hallowell on Astronomy and Chemistry. And in addition to all
the ordinary branches of a solid education, they are prepared to
teach and do teach, the more ornamental ones of Music, Drawing,
Painting, and French.

Terms of boarding and tuition, as usual, moderate.[130]

On a hot Sunday afternoon in July 1835, during an electrical storm, the
meetinghouse was struck by lightning. On that day the pastor, Dr.
Harrison, had been invited to Georgetown to preach, and the usual Sunday
afternoon services were postponed. Imagine his horror upon returning to
discover the "severe and Awful calamity which had befallen the church
and congregation." In the session book of the meetinghouse, we find this
vivid description:

It has pleased God