Deaths in the Aussie frontier
Menindee magistrate George Fullerton, 39, left town for Mount Gipps, about 150 kilometres away, on court business, but did not make it home alive.
”’Was brought back a corpse” is how the South Australian Weekly Chronicle and a number of other papers reported the death of the popular father-of-five in August, 1882.
An inquest determined he died from natural causes.
Sources; South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1881 – 1889) Saturday 26 August 1882
Travelling around Australia, I've found many amazing headstones, some almost illegible and rapidly crumbling. This page is an attempt to save some of the stories behind some of those interesting deaths. It is also an exploration of the way newspapers of the day reported them. These stories often use language and report in a way which is not seen as appropriate today, and are written from a very specific colonial context. View more posts
Way to go Australia