1913 – Eight-year old Mary McDermott was visiting her friend Penelope Bowdler, 10, in East Cobar, New South Wales on a Saturday morning in October.
Mrs Bowdler saw them playing about 11am and at noon went to check on them again.
Their hats were found floating in a six-foot-deep waterhole only 30 yards from the house.
No-one knew how the children fell in, but it was assumed the edge of the bank fell in.
There are no records for Mary McDermott’s burial in Cobar Shire.
Source: The Cobar Herald Friday 24 October 1913
Way to go Australia 