Old Tailem Town

"Mock Cemetery" Index

January 2011

Old Tailem Town is a Pioneer Village tourist attraction situated on the Princes Highway at Tailem Bend.

It contains a ‘mock cemetery’ which contains legitimate headstones, most of which originate from reclaimed graves at Payneham Cemetery.

 

BAKER, George Forbes
BALD, John
BALD, Lucy
BARBER, William Henry
BILLS, Ella
BILLS, Ellen E.
BILLS, John M.
BILLS, Marian Annie
BLIGHT, Rosaleen Emily (Lena)
BROADSTOCK, R.F.
Buffie (dog?)
BUTLER, Ronald
CARRISON, Harry
CHRISTIAN, Allen Gordon
CLAXTON, Dorothea Evelyn
CONNOR, Clara Lily
CORNISH, Charles Arthur
CORNISH, Ebenezer
CORNISH, Frances Elizabeth
COX, Frederick
Daisy
ESTERHUIZEN, Allan John
GRAY, Alexander
GRAY, Christina
GRAY, Sarah Jane
HEYEN, Aubrey Francis
HEYEN, May Nada (Narnie)
HOPKINS, Druseller
HOPKINS, Frederick Thomas
HUNTER, David
JACKSON, Alberta Joyce
JACKSON, Henry A.
JAENSCH, Benjamin August
JAENSCH, Hilda Anna
JEFFERY, Mary Ann
JOHNSTON, Aldewyn
Lassie (dog?)
MANSOM, Anastasia
MENNER, Emma Louisa
MIDDLETON, Gertrude B.
MIDDLETON, Henrietta M.A.
MIDDLETON, Herbert H.B.
MURDOCH, Barbara
MURDOCH, David
MURDOCH, John
Olga (dog?)
O'MALLEY, Thomas Francis (Frank)
OPIE, Francis W.
PLOWMAN, Charles Henry
PYCROFT, William Isaac James
SAMBELL, Hannah
SANDOW, Paul Clinton
SCOTT, Archibald
SISSON, Samuel
THIELE, Dorothea Ida
Togo (dog?)
WELCH, James
WRIGHT, Alice Jane
WRIGHT, Jane
WRIGHT, John
WRIGHT, Richardson John

 

Although the cemetery does not contain any bodies, the headstones are still original and many of them were rescued from Paynham cemetry as the leases had expired. One headstone is of particular interest which is Samuel Sisson. It has become known as the travelling headstone as it was brought over from Tasmania to Australia, and moved around the country to finally be offered to Peter's Village. After deeper investigation, it was found that the person on the headstone was not originally from Tasmania, but had died here in South Australia in Bridgewater. How the headstone came to be in Tasmania remains a mystery but strangely it does seem to have finally found it's own way home to South Australia.
Photo (c) Helen Stein
........... excerpt from:
  http://www.paranormalfieldinvestigators.com/tailem_town_history.html

 

 

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