eGGSA Graves - Eastern Cape

Cemetery / Memorials Information:  

Named after Dr. Thomas Coke, a 5 ft 1” Welshman with a heart for missions, and begun by Rev. Stephen Kay in 1825, assisted by Richard Tainton, the Mount Coke Mission was the second in Rev. Shaw’s ‘chain of stations’ in Chief Ndlambe’s area.

Sadly it has fallen to ruin and wild fig trees have taken hold in the walls. Just a clinic that has been built on the site is to be found. The ruins at Mount Coke do not make it a very safe place to visit. The first ruin you see on your right coming from Qonce (KWT) is of the building in which the first complete Xhosa bible was printed by the Rev. Appleyard. A patient of the hospital by the name of Florence Tyamzashe bequeathed 1652 pounds to the hospital when she died in 1951, would not she cry to see the place today!

Also called Mkangiso (a lookout:  the ‘mount’ behind the mission). The small tributary of the Buffalo River that flows below is the Umkangiso river.  There are just a few graves here including that of the Rev. and Mrs. Young’s two children at 32° 58' 44.99" S, 27° 26' 41.16" E.

I am not sure what headman Kolele laid the stone for in July 18 1906 as it lies loose next to bulldozed rubble below the fenced off clinic area. (Robert Speirs)

Album incomplete. 

Photographs contributed by: Robert Speirs.   eGGSA captions by: Sharon Frauenstein.

The GSSA Gravestone Transcription Index (GTI) only has information on the cemetery location.

Cemetery ID:       GPSID: 

GPS:  -32 58.754, 27 26.687