Michael & Bruce Rumsey - Tallong, NSW - Graves Mentioning a Cause of Death on Waymarking.com

Four members of the same family drowned in the Shoalhaven River gorge nearby & all are buried in Tallong Cemetery. The two graves abut one another sharing the same base for the marble plaques.

The deaths were reported in The Argus a Melbourne newspaper on 7 January 1957. A recording of the article is to be found in Trove, the National Library of Australia's repository of digitised news articles.

The Argus article states: The four members of the same family drowned in NSW at Shoalhaven Gorge, near Tallong, were: HILLARY RUMSEY, 45, orchardist, of Tallong, his sons, MICHAEL, 13, and BRUCE, 10, and his brother-in-law, VICTOR RALPH LUKE, 37, carpenter, of Penrose.

A brass plaque at the base of Hilary Rumsey's headstone shows that the boys' mother Marise lived until 2006.

Type of Death Listed: Accident Website (if available): [Web Link] Cause of death inscription on headstone: Not listed

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