Dawson. A ghost town north of Peterborough. The graves of the murdered Thyer family. An 1896 tragedy. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Dawson. A ghost town north of Peterborough. The graves of the murdered Thyer family. An 1896 tragedy. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Dawson Cemetery. Dawson is a ghost town north of Peterborough in very marginal country. These pastoral leasehold lands were resumed and surveyed for sale just after the Hundred of Coglin was declared in 1878. The town of Dawson started to emerge a couple of years later in 1881. It is very much a ghost town now with a handful of residents only. But in the early 1880s the town needed a cemetery and one was established just outside of the town. The Thyer graves depicted in this photograph tell a tragic and sad tale. On 16th October 1896 a struggling farmer named Joseph Thyer on a property between Dawson and Cavenagh returned home and murdered his wife Elizabeth and five children with an axe and then hanged himself. One can only guess and the circumstances which led to the mental health problems of Joseph Thyer living on marginal lands, way beyond Goyder’s Line, and with a family of five youngsters and a wife to support at a time of probably little income. The grave for Joseph, which does not record the year of death, was placed there by his parents and surrounded with a neat low cast iron grave fence. His wife and children were buried in an adjoining cemetery plot again with no details or dates. C. Elizabeth Thyer (née Collins of Burra) was 36 years of age, and the murdered children were Florence 12 years old, Edward 9 years old, Alexander 7 years old, Charles 6 years old, and baby Ray 4 months old. Now over 120 years later their graves are still there in excellent condition. Local newspapers of the day have all the sad and gruesome details of their deaths. The two eldest children were not at home at the time of the murders and one of the boys aged 17 years found the grisly scene and alerted authorities. The funeral was held at Dawson in the Methodist Church on Wednesday 21st October 1896. The graves of Elizabeth and the children is marked “In Sad Remembrance”. |
| 撮影日 | 2017-01-03 14:41:57 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
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