Frank Hawson - Port Lincoln, S.A., Australia
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S 34° 43.420 E 135° 52.823
53H E 580606 N 6157247
A roadside grave in Port Lincoln
Waymark Code: WM156NM
Location: South Australia, Australia
Date Posted: 10/26/2021
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The original burial place of ten year old Frank Hawson who was the first European person to be killed by aborigines on Eyre Peninsula.The body was removed from its original burial place and reburied at s34 43.370 e135 52.697, its present site 200m away in 1911.
Frank and his brother were camped at an outstation known as Little Swamp, about three miles from Port Lincoln, in 1840. While his brother was in town getting supplies, some aborigines approached the hut and Frank opened the door. He received two barbed spears in his chest in exchange for a gun wound to one of the aborigines, all of whom then ran away. Hawson lying down with the shafts in the fire, attempted to cut the spears out, and then to burn them out.
His brother found him in this position eleven hours after the spearing. He cut off the shafts, and took his Frank on horseback to Port Lincoln where he died.
City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Port Lincoln
Approximate number of graves: 1
Cemetery Status: Inactive Maintained
Cemetery Website: Not listed
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