EICHLER, Henrietta31665

Died 12 April 1900 at Redruth
No headstone plot 2059
Burra Cemetery


Obituary.  Mrs Henrietta Eichler, mother-in-law of the Town Clerk, Mr A. Bartholomæus has died aged 88 years 7 months.  She fractured her hip 11 weeks ago and never recovered.  She left Clausthal, Germany, in late 1851 and arrived in SA in January 1852 and proceeded to Burra where her husband gained work in the mine.  When the Victorian gold rush was on Mr Eichler went there for three years and on returning worked at the mine as a timberman until the mine closed.  Mr Eichler died 11 years ago.  She is survived by four sons and two daughters as well as 34 grandchildren and about 50 great-grandchildren.  Rev. W.H. Rofe officiated at the funeral