Evelyn Mitchell - Glen Innes, NSW, Australia
S 29° 43.528 E 151° 45.153
56J E 379351 N 6710982
John Mitchell has a Broken Column that his memorial tablet lay in front of, to record his death; but it is the weatherworn inscription for his 3½ year old daughter Evelyn Myra, that brings meaning to the Broken Column.
Waymark Code: WMZRR4
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 12/29/2018
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This Broken Column Headstone has two white marble tablets for it, but the almost indicpherable inscription on the sandstone base is the real reason that it is a Broken Column. After squinting, and carefully checking from all sides I wrote down in my Waymarking/Geocaching log book all that I could make out. Being:
In Loving Memory
of
Evelyn Myra
Eldest daughter of
Annie Maud Mitchell
Born at
Greenbank Wandsworth
25 May 1882
Died 25 November 1885
Aged 3 yr & 6 month
The white tablet for John Mitchell, that was laying face-down, reads:
In Memory of
----*----
JOHN ALEXANDER
MITCHELL
born Wandsworth
7th Feb. 1858
Died Kogorah
14th Oct. 1915
The white marble tablet for Annie Mitchell reads:
Sacred
to the memory of
Annie Maud Mitchell
wife of
John Alexander Mitchell
born Inglewood, Victoria,
1 Feb. 1862.
died Glen Innes,
17 April 1901
Aged 39 years.
_____
Matt XXVI: 13
[My Bible
New Century Version gives that as:
"I tell you the truth, wherever the Good News is preached in all the world, what this woman has done will be told, and people will remember her."
The Broken Column is set on a concrete slab, and surrounded by low decorative fence, that is now a bit rusty.
Visited: 0705, Sunday, 26 August, 2018