The old identities expressed deep and sincere regret yesterday when word came into town that old Tommy King had been killed at Parker’s Range, for Tommy was one of the pioneers of 1887 and 1888. For over 28 years the deceased maintained that he had a rich gold find divulged to him in a dream. His dream was so vivid that he returned here again and again with the object of locating the dream find. Some years ago, Mick Hoffman got some good prospects near the place that old Tom had been dreaming about, and together they applied for a gold mining lease. It was rather appropriate that they called it ‘The Miners Dream’.
Tommy King, Southern Cross Pioneer Cemetery. Buried at Marvel Loch but memorial plaque moved to the Pioneer cemetery SC
Southern Cross Times 23rd May 1914
Tommy King’s Funeral. – At the funeral of old Tommy King the road to the cemetery was in such state the cortege lost itself, and had to cut across the bush to make their destination.
Tho’ its people your ways may condemn.
For where progress encounters resistance.
Who among the prospectors of the South Yilgarn but did not know Tommy King, the battler of the battlers, eccentric, for who has had the hardship of prospecting with the environs and the ever dreary expectancy of the bushland but becomes eccentric. But with a man of sterling integrity, always remembering a kindness, never forgetting a friend, never forgetting his manhood and with that sturdy independence incidental to the members of the track blazers. Never looking for wages as long as he had enough to satisfy his every-day wants, always looking for that chimerical fortune, which alas! so seldom comes, satisfied he was doing his best. God rest his soul. He had carried the pioneer’s burden north, south and the east and the west unknown to his spirit that reward life brings with its Yuletide of rest, struggling ever that theme coming after who knew not the cares he had known inLeave a Tip!
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Moya Sharp
Birth ABT 1849 • Hinderclay, Suffolk, England;
1851 • census, Hinderclay, Suffolk, England
mother could be Elizabeth;
wife could be Louisa and son Christopher (1870-)
Re- Thomas Christopher Nunn KING
Birth ABT 1849 • Hinderclay, Suffolk, England
Death 1914 • Ydgara, Yilgan, Southern Cross, Western Australia (ref 8)