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One Of The Last Of The Shakers Has Died – Only Two Remain

PEOPLE Posted: January 5, 2017 7:02 am

Sister Frances Carr, a resident of the sole remaining Shaker community, at Sabbathday Lake in Maine, passed on Monday at age 89. “Carr apparently didn’t like when people called her, 60-year-old [Brother Arnold] Hadd and 78-year-old Sister June Carpenter the ‘last’ Shakers – she was convinced others would eventually convert to the religious sect, something Hadd still hopes for.”

PEOPLE Published: 01.04.17

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