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beechworth
cemetery
The discovery of gold at Spring Creek in 1852, led to a massive influx of gold seekers eager to make their fortune at Beechworth (then known as Mayday Hills). Within eleven months, over 8000 diggers, many from overseas, had descended on the new find. Life and conditions on the diggings were primitive and between 1853 and 1860, an average of one child per week died from diseases like measles, scarlet fever, dysentery, diphtheria, and typhoid.
The first official cemetery was in Loch Street from 1853 to 1855. Many of the bodies were later exhumed and reburied in the Pioneer Section of the present cemetery which opened in 1856. In the Chinese Section of the cemetery, some 2000 Chinese gold seekers and settlers are buried. The ornate iron gates and Beechworth granite entrance pillars were erected in 1888. The lawn section of the cemetery, opposite the main cemetery in Balaclava Road, was opened in April 1999.
Patients who died in the Beechworth Asylum were buried in the Beechworth Cemetery unless their families claimed the body. In the early years, they were placed in a communal grave, visible now as a patch of grass at the back of the Cemetery. Practices changed to allow individual graves, but these were unmarked, with occupants’ names recorded only in Cemetery records.
The cemetery is registered with the Heritage Council – Victoria.
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EDWARD ALBERT GIBBS
1887–1965
Edward GIBBS was born in Caulfield, VIC., on 23 February 1887, younger son of Solomon GIBBS and Henrietta LOGAN. He first enlisted in Melbourne in February 1915 with service number 380, naming his brother Frank as next of kin as both parents had died. His Army career had a difficult start; he was discharged with venereal disease, re-enlisted with number 4815, declared a deserter and married.
He re-enlisted in 1916, service number 6887, and joined the 22nd Reinforcements, 6th Battalion and sailed for England in October 1916. He had laryngitis and pneumonia in England, was transferred to 66th Battalion then back to the 6th and sailed for France in March 1918. He received gunshot wounds to his left thigh in July 1918 and was evacuated to hospital in England, repatriated early in 1919 and discharged.
He married Emma WALKER in Brighton, VIC., in November 1919 (possibly bigamously). They lived in Footscray and GIBBS worked as a labourer, and the couple had six children between 1920 and 1919. Gibbs became ill in 1927 and was admitted to Royal Park Hospital in Melbourne for assessment. Finally, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, admitted to hospital in Melbourne and transferred to Mayday Hills in 1943, where he died on 2 August 1965. He is buried in Beechworth Cemetery, Church of England Section C, Plot 42.
DUDLEY GEORGE TONG
1887–1973
Dudley TONG was born in Fitzroy, VIC., in 1887, third of four children of William TONG and Florence SHADE. Before the War he worked as a driver, played football for Richmond and ran a pub in Waaia for a year. In 1915 he married Maud LUCKING, a widow with two daughters. He enlisted in Melbourne, service number 3932, one of only 200 men of Chinese descent who were accepted for service. He joined the 9/21st Battalion and sailed for France early in 1916.
He received gunshot wounds to the buttocks at the Battle of Mouquet Farm in August 1916 and transferred to hospital in England for treatment. In May 1917 he was declared unfit for service because of his injuries and repatriated, being discharged on medical grounds in September 1917 in Melbourne and awarded an Army pension.
His life deteriorated after the War, with episodes of drinking and domestic violence, and he separated from his wife. He lived in Melbourne and worked as a horse and cart driver. He was admitted to Mayday Hills in April 1939 with a diagnosis of Korsakov syndrome (brain damage caused by alcohol). He is remembered fondly by staff who knew him. He died on 12 September 1973 and is buried in the Beechworth Cemetery, Church of England, Section C, Plot 187.