HISTORIC DISCOVERY.
A HIDDEN TOMBSTONE. [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, February 10. An historic discovery was made in the Grafton bridge cemetery this morning by Mr A. Bond, sexton, who unearthed from a thick bush of ivy creeper a headstone which dated back to ltiol, a period of 75 years. The inscription was worked with quaint originality. It read: "Sacred to the memory of Charles Dickson, Esq., son of the late Major General Sir Jeremiah Dickson, K.C.B. Died 6th October, 1851. aged 28 years." The cemetery is 77 years old, and the fact that the headstone has been in place for 75 years is taken to mean that it was probably the first monument erected over a grave in that cemetery.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18923, 11 February 1927, Page 8
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