Northern Cape, WARRENTON district, Rural (farm cemeteries) / Northern Cape, WARRENTON district, Old Wedburg mining cemetery / (12 of 20 images)
Cemetery information:- This is an 'at risk cemetery' that is in a mining area and contain some graves of pioneer diggers of the diamond rush and the Boer war (about 100 graves) Wedberg was on the Vaal river opposite Windsorton and even bigger than Windsorton. Due to mining the whole town is no longer in existence and the only part that remains is the cemetery. It is in a sorry state and due to mining will not be there for much longer. (Derek Smith) Album incomplete. eGGSA captions by: Andries Holtzhausen The GGSA Cemetery DVD only has information on the cemetery location. Cemetery ID: 6816 Google Earth Cemetery Initiative Information:- GPSID: 8185 GPS: -28 19.500, 24 43.200
SMITH Paul Lodewyk 1851-1939
contributed by: Derek Smith
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