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Post date: 20/05/2015
A cemetery is located here. It is associated with a small pocket of black wattle trees and is located in the general vicinity of the eastern end of the study area. The cemetery is comprised of two distinct sections roughly 15m apart. The western section consists of a single grave of which the dressing is orientated along the east-west axis and which has a broken ornate sandstone headstone. The original pedestal of the headstone was still located on the western end of the grave with four fragments of the headstone observed on top of the grave. With some difficulty the following inscription could be deciphered:
IN MEMORY OF
ALFRED THOMAS
BORN 30
SEPTEMBER (??)
DIED 12 MARCH 1899 BELOVED
SON OF
ALFRED AND FRANCIS ELIZABETH
HARVEY BORN OERTELHIA – INTIBANE COLLIERY Page 38 of 65
During the archival research undertaken as part of this study, the death certificate for Alfred Thomas Harvey was located (MHG, 16065). The death certificate indicates that the deceased was born at Middelwater in the vicinity of Prieska during Novemb employed as a dispatch clerk at the Witbank Colliery at the time of his death and that he passed away at the farm Vlakvarkfontein. The movable property of Alfred Thomas Harvey is indicated in an inventory from the same file as one bicycle (₤10), a silver watch (₤3), a bed and headrest (₤2) as well as life insurance to the value of ₤500.