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Cemeteries > Goongarrie Cemetery S to L
Goongarrie Cemetery
Western Australia....continued
ON SIDE OF MAIN ROAD
GPS Latitude & Longitude 30o 02".46 121o 09".63
Kalgoorlie to Menzies at Goongarrie - Grave markers and fenced off
SCHWAM – d. Dec 1894 – typhoid –came from Hawkes Nest – cared for at the hotel
SIMMS – d. Dec 1894 -came from Niagara - This grave has historically been known as the grave of SIMMS
No death certificate issued in this name. It now seems that the persons name could really be John Walker TIMMS
TIMMS John Walker could be Simms died age 35 – Yilgarn death cert 490/1895
LONELY GRAVE – GOONGARRIE DISTRICT
LITTLE Thomas d. 7 Nov 1897 age 49 died of thirst 9 miles from Goongarrie on the old Goongarrie Niagara Road – North Coolgardie death cert 74/1897
MACK Phil d. 14 Jul 1894 age 31 speared at Deadmans Soak buried at the site The old tin plaque was replaced with a replica plaque by the Eastern Goldfields
Historical Society in November 1991 – Photographs of the EGHS trip to erect the new plaque, the original plaque is now in the collection of the Eastern Goldfields Historical Society.
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