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Southern Highlands · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1884

9 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Original Poetry. Written on the Death of a Gentleman's Wife

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 3

THE brightest flame that lights the gloom, But flashes o'er its dying ray: The sweetest flower that's known to bloom, Sheds perfume o'er it't own decay…

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Original Poetry. on the Death of Oliver

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 23 February 1884 · page 3

'TIS hard to know that death line won At any time, a tear To drop o'er what its work hath done, To gem the sacred bier…

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DEATH of the DUKE of Albany. London, March 21

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 5 April 1884 · page 2

HIS Royal Highness Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, died suddenly at Cannes to-day, aged 30. His health, though never robust, had not been by any means sufficiently…

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Select Poetry. the Death of Elsie

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 12 April 1884 · page 4

I sat one night and pondered, I passed the night in grief, Each moment much I wondered, I sought for calm relief;…

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Obituary

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 31 May 1884 · page 2

WE regret to have to record the death of Mr. H. K. Tate, seventh son of Mr. George Tate, J.P., of Moss Vale. Deceased about, a month ago took seriously ill, and was…

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Obituary

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 14 June 1884 · page 2

WE have to record the death on Sunday last, at his residence, Bowral, at the age of forty-one years, of Mr. James E. Comer, a native of the district, and for some time proprietor of the Prince Alfred Hotel,…

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Original Poetry. on the Death of Mr. H. K. TATE

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 14 June 1884 · page 4

No word in our language such sorrow can bring—No event in our lives more distress—Than the dolorous, dismal visitant Death,…

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Death of Mr J. R. Cole

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 23 August 1884 · page 2

ON Monday morning last Mr. J. R. Cote, a well-known-and much respected resident of Upper Mittagong, died at his residence, Cherry Bank, from the effect of a tumor in…

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The Suspicious Death of a Woman at the Glebe

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 22 November 1884 · page 2

AN adjourned inquiry into the circumstances connected with the death of the woman Ellen Boll, who died at the Glebe on Mopday, the 10th instant, under suspicious…

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