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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1908

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Death of Mr. Travers Jones, Ex-m.l.a

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 June 1908 · page 8

THE death occurred at Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, of Mr. Travers Jones, a well-know ruining engineer, and ex-Parliamentary representative for…

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Obituary Notices

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 2

THE demise occurred in Sydney yesterday of Mr. John McDonald, son of the late Mr. Alex, McDonald, of Craven, and late of Swamp station, near…

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To Pay for the Funeral

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1908 · page 5

She was a kindly old soul with an implicit faith in the doctor's. word, and when he said there was no hope for her patient she was prepared for the worst…

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Obituary

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 July 1908 · page 2

The grim reaper, Death, has been busy amongst us this week and last. Within a few days four deaths have taken place, two of which were recorded in our last issue. On…

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Street Skating. Death of Young Girl. Citizens Take Action

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 July 1908 · page 4

Dorothy Evans, the twelve-year-old daughter of the Rev. W. W. Evans, pastor of Wheaton College Church and Director of the Moody Biblical…

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Mountain Death. Tragedy of the Naples Needle

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 July 1908 · page 3

A distressing mountaineering fatality is reported from the Lake district, where, on 15th April, at the foot of the Naples Needle, on Great Gable,the dead…

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The Late Mrs. W. G. O'Neill

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 July 1908 · page 2

IN our last issue we announced, briefly, the demise of Charlotte, relict of the late W. G. O'Neill, formerly sub-in-spector of police in the N.S.W. force…

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Death of Mrs. W. G. O'neill

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 28 July 1908 · page 2

As briefly recorded in our last issue, the death of Mrs. W. G. O'Neill took place at her residence, Lowe Street, Queanbeyan, on Thursday…

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Obituary

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 July 1908 · page 5

WIDESPREAD regret was expressed at the news of the death of Mrs. Benjamin Ross, of Spring Flat, as recorded in the Gundagai Times, The deceased was the second…

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Death of Mrs. O'hara

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 4 August 1908 · page 2

MRS. O'HARA, one of the oldest Scottish residents in Australia, died at her residence "Hawea," Says water-road, Darlinghurst on Sunday…

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Death of a Coast Millionaire

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 5 August 1908 · page 2

Mr. Edward Pritchard, who died at his residence at Numba on Tuesday of last week, was reputed to be worth a million of money. He was born at Hillmeads, England, was 73…

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Death of Mrs. S. Weir

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 August 1908 · page 3

WE have to chronicle the passing, on Wednesday last, of another old resident of the district in the person of Mrs. Sarah Weir, who had reached…

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Death of Mrs. Weir, Senr

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1908 · page 2

ON Wednesday morning, after remaining in a comatose state for several days, the result of an attack of paralysis, at the advance age of nearly. 90 years,…

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Death of Ira D. Sankey

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 August 1908 · page 2

THE death is announced oi Mr. Ira D. Sankey, American Evangelist, aged 67 years. Mr. Sankey was associated for 20 years with the late…

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Death of Mr. W. P. Crick

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 August 1908 · page 2
Also in Queanbeyan Age

MR. WILLIAM PATRICK CRICK, once a familiar figure in the public life of this State, died at his residence, Belmore-road, Randwick, on Sunday…

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Death of Mr. W. P. Grick

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 26 August 1908 · page 5

Mr. W. P. Crick died at his res[?], Randwick, on Monday afternoon, from hemorbage of the stomach. He was born at T[?], not for from Kapunda,…

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Obituary

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 October 1908 · page 2

It is our sad province to record quits an unusual number of deaths during the put week or so in the district, numbering some seven or eight, mostly consisting, however, of elderly people, or those who…

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Obituary

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 October 1908 · page 2

NEWS was received in town yesterday that Mr. F. D. A. Korff, C.P.S. of Queanbeyan, had died suddenly on Sunday at Manly. Deceased, it…

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Death of Carlyle

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 3

After taking finally to bis bed the venerable man spoke hardly at all; there was no visible obstruction of the organs of speech, but almost…

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