1903 – Sixteen-year-old Agnes Ashworth died after meningitis was superceded by pneumonia.
Only a week before her death she was singing in the local church choir at Yackandandah, a former gold mining town in the north-east of Victoria.
When she first complained of feeling unwell, her parents talked of taking her to the doctor, but she “made slight of her ailment.’’
When she did not improve, they took her to Wodonga for treatment.
“Brain fever” set in and Agnes, the oldest daughter of an engine driver, was dead a week later.
The deceased was a “general favorite in the locality, and the news of her death gave both young and old a severe shock.”
The Yackandandah Times
She is buried in the Yackandandah Cemetery in north-east Victoria.
Sources: Ovens and Murray Advertiser, Saturday 7 March 1903, p7
Wodonga and Towong, Friday 6 March 1903, p2
The Yackandandah Times, Thursday 5 March 1903, p2
Way to go Australia 