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The Golden Graveyard:

12/10/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Australian Goldfields Courier, Coolgardie  9 February 1895, page 4 WESTERN WANDERINGS. CAMP FIRE and FOREST TRACK. A GOLDEN GRAVEYARD. [BY A. G. ‘Smiler’ HALES] Michael William Kelly had thrown a seven. No one knew exactly what it was that killed him. Some of the boys at Kurnalpi, where he had worked long and well […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Goldfields History, Kurnalpi, Western Australia

The Graves of Horseman’s Gully – grave tales

27/09/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

WARNING:- Graphic content of grave remains that may upset some people. In 1995 Forsyth-Plutonic Gold Mining held the mining lease of an area that included burials at Horseman’s Gully near Darlot in the Murchison. Under mining law, it is prohibited to mine within 100 yards of a know burial site. This posed a problem for […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Darlot, Goldfields History, Horsemans Gully, Western Australia

Edward ‘Doo Dah’ Sullivan –

14/09/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

SULLIVAN Edward alias ‘Doo-dah” or “Dido” died 2 Jul 1896 age 36yrs – buried 2 miles north of Leonora. For some years his old barrow and some of his equipment reposed by his grave, but gradually they disappeared. Sir John Forrest later arranged to have a headstone and fence to be erected. A pioneer prospector […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Leonora, Western Australia

Annie McCulloch – grave tales

07/09/2019 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

The following grave is in the Presbyterian section of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery, grave number 3625. The surroundings are in poor condition, and all the tiles and immortelles are missing, but the headstone at least is intact. Three people from one family are buried here. First, a little girl, Annie Danella Muir Roy MCCULLOCH ‘Ella’, who […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

The Neglected Cemetery – by Janet Wells

06/09/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Riding down a rutted track In climate hot and harsh, The townships just a few miles back Along the salty marsh; Its gardens full of flowering trees, Its fences bougainvillea strewn, Its roadside curbs of colored stone By local tradesmen hewn. Where people live in tidy homes, The single storied kind, And parks and greens […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kanowna, Western Australia

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