The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser (SA : 1880 - 1954) Friday 17 April 193193046

OBITUARY.
Mr. Charles Albert Duffield Jarvis,
whose death took place at Quorn on
March 18, was horn at Mount Barker
Springs in 1884. Later with his
parents he removed to Hay Valley,
near Nairne. At the age ot 15 years
he left Hay Valley for the Hundred of
Palmer, with Mr. Howland in charge
of a team of bullocks and dray to farm
a block for his father, Mr.. John Duf-
fleld Jarvis, at "No Where Else Dam,"
where was joined two years later by
his parents and the rest of the family.
The seasons not being good, he went
to work for Mr. Carter, near Horse
shoe. In one harvest he took off the
whole crop with one machine and
three changes of horses, averaging 14
acres per day for the 1,200 acres. In
1888 he married Miss J. Hilder, daugh-
ter of the late Mr. H. Hilder and sister
of Messrs. H. H. Hilder, and B. Hilder,
of Quorn. Then for several years
he farmed land in the Hundred of
Culda Mulda, belonging to his brother-
in-law, Mr! Tilden Hilder. Wlieu. the
Hundred of Warcowie was allotted, he
obtained a block of laud. He re-
tired to Quorn in February, 1923.
Besides the widow, the surviving
members of the family are:—Mr. E. C.
Jarvis (Hawker), Mrs. W. J. Sanders
(Hawker), Mrs. A. Wewhirst (Carrie
ton), Mr, H. H. Jarvis (Hawker), and
Cyril and Marjorie Jarvis (Quorn).