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- 136 REMINISCENCES OF OLD VICTORIA
Monument to Benjamin Topp, H. M. S. Cormorant; died Oct. 22, 1846, age 40.
John Miller, H. M. S. Thetis, drowned in Esquimalt harbor June 3, 1852, age 22; W. R. Plummer, H. M. S. Thetis, age 23; James Smith, H. M. S. Thetis, age 31; Charles Parsons, H. M. S. Thetis, age 35?all drowned between Esquimalt and Victoria harbors, Aug. 22, 1852. Note?This headboard is wood, and although nearly 50 years old, is in splendid preservation, painted white with black letters, which stand out as plain as the day they were put on.
Monument to men of H. M. S. Plumper?James D. Trewin, died June 12, 1858, age 32 years; George Williams, Feb. 4, 1858, age 37 years.
Monument to William Johnson, H. M. S. Hecate; died Jan. 3, 1862.
Monument to men of H. M. S. Sutlej; died 1864 and
1866?Thomas Depnall, John Reese, George Crute,
William Douglas, Albert Gilbert, Alexander Borthwick. Monument to men of H. M. S. Tribune, 1865. Chief Engineer of H. M. S. Sparrowhawk; died 1866. Paymaster of H. M. S. Devastation; died 1864. Engineer of H. M. S. Topaz; died 1861.
Commander Robson, of H. M. Gunboat Forward; died 1861, from effects of fall from his horse.
Engineer Charlton; died 1861. (Accidentally shot himself.)
Captain John A. Bull, master of H. M. surveying vessel Plumper; died ?, 1860, age 27 years.
Granite monument to Edwin Evans, only son of Rev. E. Evans, D.D., age 20 years.
I have already given an account of this young man's death and burial in one of my former reminiscences ; how he was drowned off Beacon Hill one December day.
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He undressed and swam out after a duck he had shot, got caught in the kelp and was drowned, his poor father walking up and down the beach all that night, calling " Edwin! Edwin ! My son !" He was buried in a snowstorm, and great sympathy was shown by the public, by the crowds which filled the cemetery that day. Dr. Evans was Methodist minister when the church was built that is now being demolished.
Monument to Frederick Pemberton, Edward Scott, Eber and Grace, the four children of Bishop Cridge, who all died within two months, from diphtheria, in 1864-5 ; also his sister, Miss Cridge.
Jane, aged 47, wife of Thomas Lea Fawcett, and mother of Rowland, Edgar and Arthur Fawcett, the latter of London, Eng. ; died January, 1864.
Thomas H. Botterell; died 1866, age 27 years.
Eliza A., daughter of George and Isabella Simpson;
died 1872, aged 16 years 8 months (sister of George
Simpson, H. M. customs.)
James Murray Yale, chief trader, H. B. Co.; died May 7, 1871, age 71 years.
Charlotte B., wife of Joseph Corin; died July 12, 1863, age 24 years. (She was the wife of partner of Charles Hayward.)
Elizabeth Caroline, wife of Edward G. Alston; died January, 1865, age 27 years. (Mr. Alston was registrar-general.)
Charlotte, wife of John Dutnall (John Dutnall was sexton of Christ Church, and formerly in charge of one of the H. B. Co.'s farms. Has a brother at Albert Head, farming.
Antonia Hernandez; died March 22, 1862, age 32 years.
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