Elizabeth Jane Hodgkiss
Don Congregational Cemetery
Died 17 Oct 1865
Age 20 years
Drowned
Jane Hodgkiss
Don Congregational Cemetery
Died 17 Oct 1865
Age 4 years
Drowned
Registered year 1865 - Examiner newspaper report 1864
RIVER DON
I regret having to announce a fatal accident that occurred on Monday, the 17th inst. A Miner's wife named Hodgkiss was coming down to the Don Stores. She lived up the tramway but on the opposite side of the river and had to cross the latter on a tree. She was accompanied by her two children, aged three years and seven months respectively. She appears to have left the youngest while she took the eldest across and it is supposed from the appearance of the tree that she slipped off and both sank to rise no more. The river was searched all day and about 6 o'clock in the evening her body was found, but up to the present time the little girl has not. An inquest was held on Wednesday, before C. Friend Esq. and a jury , Mr. M. Philbrock, foreman and after the examination of witnesses, a verdict of found drowned was returned. Today the funeral took place in the new cemetery, which was used for the first time. A sad and melancholy commencement.
The Examiner Tuesday 25th October 1864
RIVER DON
The body of the little girl who was drowned was found by her father on Saturday morning. An inquest was held in the afternoon and it was interred in the cemetery on Sunday. A subscription was entered into and upwards of seven pounds inscribed for the unfortunate man.
The Examiner Tuesday 1st November 1864