eGGSA Graves - Eastern Cape

Cemetery / Memorials Information:   

Mr. MacDiarmid was ordained as missionary at MacFarlan (Lovedale’s principal out-station) in 1852.

There is a cemetery along the edge of the road to Hogsback before you cross the Tyumie River  as you pass below MacFarlan. It has more recently established graves. Behind it, a little lower is what was presumably the original road and below that is an older cemetery with just two graves with inscriptions and a number of unmarked graves (roughly at 32° 42' 57.82" S, 26° 53' 3.85" E). Maggie Makiwane was was married to Elijah Makiwane of the Free Church of Scotland. He married three times, each time to a Maggie! In August 1877 he married Maggie Majiza, his first wife who died in 1883, leaving three children. The daughter of his second wife, Cecilia Makiwane, who was born here, became the first registered black nurse in what was to become South Africa. There is no stone in the grave adjoining Maggie’s and most of its elaborate fenced enclosure has been cut and taken. 

Elijah Makiwane was described by the Cape Times as “the most talented and most promising Native Missionary this country has yet produced since the late Tiyo Soga's time” (quoting Simon Gqubile  in 1977). The biographical manuscript by S.E.K. Mqhayi of Elijah Makiwane and Walter Rubusana have both been lost and I have not been able to ascertain where exactly Elijah was buried. Was it here?
(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.

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GPS:  -32 42.965, 26 53.065