Southern Cross Pioneers

Transcribed by Steve and Marylin Jones

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To the memory of the Pioneers of Southern Cross who paved the way to the Eastern Goldfields. Most of those buried here were young people. Victims of Typhoid Fever. Many deaths prior to 1896 cannot be traced. The original 3'6" gauge railway passed through the cemetery site in 1897.
All available headstones from each section are assembled on this site, together with four from Marvel Loch. Erected on the site of the original Southern Cross cemetery 1891 - 1898 by the Southern Cross Historical Society and the Yilgarn Shire Council.

BEDWELL, Margaret, wife of Robert, and beloved daughter of Eliza Lehmkuhl, who died at Southern Cross, April 11, 1896, aged 33 years; erected by her loving mother and little daughter
BOOTH, Alfred Edwin, beloved husband of Johanna, who departed this life 12 February 1898, aged 45 years (with Basil)
BOOTH, Basil Armstrong, youngest child of the above (Alfred) who died 2 December 1894, aged 8= months - there are two headstones for this little person

COOPER, Walter Benjamin Thomas, who died at Southern Cross, 23 November 1894, aged 24 years

ENRIGHT, Margaret, erected by Hannie A. Enright, in memory of her beloved sister, who died at Southern Cross, 10 September 1897, aged 31 years

FAIRCLOUGH, Edward, youngest son of Myrvin* and Ann, of S. A., who died at Southern Cross, 30 May 1895, aged 19 years

GWYNNE, Albert Andrew, late of Eurelia, SA, died at Southern Cross, 7 March 1897, aged 21 years

HARPER, George T., accidentally killed November 21, 1917, aged 58 years; erected by his wife and children

JOHNSTONE, Annie Catherine, the beloved wife of Robert, who died 4 September 1916, aged 26 years

KERR, Annie Winnifred, who died March 27 1895, aged 18 years 11 months
KING, Tommy, killed in a fall of earth in the "Golden Dream", Pakers Range, in the month of May 1914, aged 65 years; erected by his old friend J. J. Quinlan

MANLEIN, William Alfred, the beloved husband of Annie, who was accidentally killed at Marvel Loch, 10 October 1913, aged 38 years; erected by his loving wife; "As the ivy clings to the oak/so our memory clings to thee" (Inserted by his children)
MOON, Samuel George, youngest son of David and Anne Moon, of N.S.Wales, died 8 February 1896, aged 28 years
MORAN, Michael, native of Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland, who departed this life at Southern Cross, 10 May 1896, aged 29 years; erected by his sorrowing brother John

PAYNE, Alice Victoria, who died on her first birthday, 7 June 1896

ROSE, Lewis Thomson, died December 23, 1895, aged 19 years

SEARLE, Ann, who died at Southern Cross, 12 June 1895, aged 52 years and 7 months
SULLIVAN, Earnest Joseph, the beloved son of T. & M. A. Sullivan, who died 7 July 1895, aged 10 months (with Thomas)
SULLIVAN, Thomas, my dear husband, who died at Southern Cross, on the 15 April 1896, aged 37 years (with Earnest); erected by his loving widow Mary Ann Sullivan

WILSON, Jessie Kathleen Haywood, the beloved daughter of Archie and Dora, who departed this life on the 26 April 1898, aged 16 months


* as per headstone

256 deaths were recorded in the Shire of Yilgarn to the 31-12-1898
Records of these are held in the Old Courthouse Museum, Southern Cross