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John Reside – grave tales

16/03/2024 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Kalgoorlie Western Argus 7 October 1902, page 19 THE LATE MR. J. RESIDE M.L.A., First Member for Hannans. The news of the sudden death of Mr. John Reside. M.L.A., first representative for the Legislative Assembly for Hannans, was received with regret throughout the goldfields and, it is not too much to say, throughout the State. […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, kalgoorlie cemetery, Western Australia

Mt Palmer – a grave competition

16/03/2024 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

Search for the Mt Palmer Cemetery and the grave  of John Ebenezer JONES By Mike Duggan Early 1972 – Mr Ken White approached Eric Carnicelli, a member of the Southern Cross Historical Society, to see if Mr White’s grandfather’s grave at Mt Palmer could be located. He offered to pay the Historical Society $150 if […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Mt Palmer, Palmers Find, Southern Cross

The Unlucky Gamble – by Big Jim Allanson

16/03/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Dolly Pot – Western Mail, Perth – 21 November 1940, page 8 OVER THE PLATES An Unlucky Gamble. DEAR “Non-Com,” Early in the “Roaring Nineties,” Billy Collins, Ned Campion, Barney – and I were camped at a pool ten miles west of Cue. At the south end of the pool, flies were making short work […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Cue, Western Australia

Sir Samuel Cemetery –

09/03/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sir Samuel / Mt Sir Samuel Cemetery “With lonely old graves where departed souls sleep, Where a merciful god a vigil must keep Till the trumpet is heard on that final last day Let us never disturb them, just leave them that way’   Sir Samuel Townsite Cemetery Sign Yakabindi Station East of Bellevue Mine […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, Hotels, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Mt Sir Samuel, Sir Samuel, Western Australia

Little Boy Lost –

02/03/2024 By Moya Sharp 11 Comments

Western Mail 10 September 1915, page 8 Lost in the Bush. A FOUR YEAR OLD WANDERER. How a small boy, aged 4 years, contrived to upset a whole town and cause practically a cassation of business for a couple of days is graphically related by a Leanora correspondent. The story also affords another instance of […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Leonora, Western Australia

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