Ranger - Uniting Church Cemetery - Collector, NSW
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S 34° 54.888 E 149° 25.730
55H E 721887 N 6133712
A Broken Column headstone in the Uniting Church Cemetery, Collector.
Waymark Code: WMZ6J9
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 09/18/2018
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Collector is an historic village which lies between Goulburn & Canberra. The Broken Column headstone records the death of Sam Ranger who died on 6 Jul 1914 aged 17 years & 6 months.
Trove Digitised Newspapers, website listed below, has a record of his death recorded in the Goulburn Evening Penny Post on 9 July 1914 as, in part:
THE COLLECTOR FATALITY.
Coroner (Mr. Harold O'Brien) on Monday morning at Collector conducted an inquiry into the death of the boy, Sampson Donald Ranger, who was shot accidentally by a pea rifle, while getting through a fence at Lake George.
The headstone, being of marble, is heavily stained.
Headstone/Monument Text:
In loving memory of Sam Ranger dearly loved eldest son of J.J. & L.V. Ranger who (indecipherable) 6th July 1914 aged 17 years & 6 months.
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