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The age of 108 claimed on Daniel Hawke’s headstone in the Emu Park cemetery is impressive. Indeed, newspapers across the country described the man as Queensland’s and possibly Australia’s oldest man when he died in 1925. But his coffin, buried deep beneath, was inscribed with the number 105. This still may have kept him hisContinue reading “Fight over will marred old man’s demise”