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Post date: 20/10/2015
Alternate Code & Name: Site RH-04
Site RH-04 comprises a Colonial Period cemetery containing 16 identifiable graves. Graves are all stone cairn demarcated, some marked with additional stone headstones, the majority of which contain no inscriptions, or of which inscriptions has been weathered to such an extent that they are no longer legible. Two gravestones still contain legible inscriptions, the 1
st being: ‘Grafsteen / van O. J. / Liebenberg / Geboren het jaar / 1816 DE 27 Augustu / Overleden het / Jaar 1887 DE 14 Sep / tember Zalig / zynde doode die / ende heere ster / ven’ and the 2nd: ‘Grafsteen / Johann / Stifan / Jacobs / G:B:D: 4M:/ 1812 O:L:D:/12A: 1877 / O: B9J: 1M/ 8:D:’ A 3rd gravestone, inscribed with a cursive font is difficult to decipher despite its good preservation, but being the grave of Johanna Jacobs with a legible date of 1858, though with uncertainty weather this date refers to the date of birth or death. Gravestone references to Liebenberg and Jacobs confirm the cemetery as that of 1 of the early settler families of the area and further serves to identify ownership of the nearby Site RH-05 farmstead.