Joseph Salinger – Kalgoorlie Cemetery – Hebrew section – Photo SLWA – WA Museum – 1907

Joseph Salinger (Hebrew Name: Yosef ben Avraham Ya’akov) died at Nurse Egans Private Hospital on the 30th January 1907 aged 41 years. At the time of his death he was the licensee of the Boulder City Hotel in Piesse Street, Boulder and prior to this was the licensee of both the Denver City and the Royal Hotels in Coolgardie. The licence of the Boulder City was take over by his wife Rebecca after his death.

Inscription on headstone:
“In loving memory of our dearly loved father Joseph Salinger beloved husband of Rebecca Salinger who departed this life 29 Jan 1907 aged 41 years.

We saw him suffering day by day,
It caused us bitter grief,
To see him slowly pine away,
and could not give relief”

Grave decorated with Star of David, hand clasp and Hebrew inscription.

On the 29th January, at Nurse Egan’s Private Hospital, Joseph Salinger, late of 61-63 Cassidy street, Kalgoorlie (now near the Arts Centre), aged 41 years. Prayers will be held this (Friday) evening at the Synagogue, at 7 o’clock, and each evening during the week at his late residence, opposite Commonwealth Reserve, at 7.30 p.m.

The Boulder City Hotel, Piesse Street, Boulder – Photo Eastern Goldfields Historical Society – Time Gents – Australian Pub Project

Western Argus 7th May 1907 – The Late Joseph Salinger. – A ceremony of a mournful nature took place yesterday at the Hebrew portion of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery – the consecration of a tombstone erected to the memory of the late Joseph Salinger. There was a large attendance of the friends of the family both of the Jewish and Christian persuasions. Mr. E. Cohen officiated, and in the course of a short address founded on the Fifth Commandment, said that although many similar ceremonies should have preceded this, parents of the Jewish faith had previously neglected to teach their children to honor them in death as well as in their lives by erecting monuments to their memories, and he trusted that this, the first, would be the means of making many others follow the good example of the Salinger family.

Kalgoorlie Western Argus 19 February 1907, page 15

Joseph Salinger – Kalgoorlie Cemetery – Photo Danelle Warnock 2023

Joseph Salinger was born in Germany in 1866, he married Rebecca Lyons, daughter of Phillip Phineus Lyons and Katherine nee Barnett, in 1887 in Sydney NSW. The couple had four children:
Catherine born Sydney NSW 1888
Adolph born Redfern NSW 1889
Julia born 1892
Lieba born 1894 Sydney NSW