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Eastern Cape, ALICE, Lovedale, Old private cemetery

Cemetery / Memorials Information: Not far from the Hospital and close to a walkway from there to Fort Hare is what I gather was a tiny private cemetery belonging to Captain C.J. Stretch. It has just two old graves that of his mother and brother in law. Not sure what the shaped stone we found lying some 25 meters away was, if it had marked a grave or had been a boundary beacon? The thatched stone house was called Domera and was Stretch’s place. He encouraged the missionaries to come set up a new mission station in these parts after Old Lovedale was destroyed in the 6th F/W. In the background is Fort Hare. Pic are just of two old buildings still standing at Lovedale. One was a missionary’s house, the other a church. (Robert Speirs)

Album complete at the time of photographing.

Photographs contributed by: Robert Speirs / Peter Moll. eGGSA captions by: Arlene Leggat.

The GSSA Gravestone Transcription Index (GTI) only has information on the cemetery location.

Cemetery ID: 7872 GPSID: 9467

GPS: -32 46.780, 26 50.846

1. Fort Hare in the background

1. Fort Hare in the background

2. Domera (Stretch's old house)

2. Domera (Stretch's old house)

3. An old church building still standing at Lovedale.

3. An old church building still standing at Lovedale.

4. Another old house still standing at Lovedale

4. Another old house still standing at Lovedale

5. A boundary post or a grave marker?

5. A boundary post or a grave marker?

6. Overview / Oorsig

6. Overview / Oorsig

DEVENISH John Mears -1844

DEVENISH John Mears -1844

LEGER Catherine, St. -1845

LEGER Catherine, St. -1845

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