OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17028, 13 August 1929, Page 11

OBITUARY

■x Tbe dmifo OCOMWed at Fukekohe rejKceritty of Mr. Charles Henry, Smith, a resident of New Zealand for. oyer 70 years and a veteran of the Maori War, aged 91 years. ' The dea.th of Mrs. Elissa Lynch ( occurred at the residence of her son, , J"akowhai k*& yesterday, xeports the l ■ '"Napier Telegraph, The deceased lady, , who was well known throughout the , whole district, wa* §1 yea*s of age, and , ... was one of the early pioneers of the ( Hswke's Bay province. Born at Mistley, she came out to New Zealand with h«r husband in 1878 iu the Renfrewshire, arriving at port Aburin. Mr. and Mrs. Lynch made the Spit thenhome, residing there for 27 years, and for 22 yeap Mr- tyiK'h yas the caretaker ' ©f the Spit Fire brigade. In 1905 the family r#»W*e4.to Hastings. SJr. Lyntsh passed away six years ago. Another old resident of Waiiganui. Mrs. .fidget Welsh. tl*®<i. recently at the Age of' $2. Deceased arrived in the Wanganaf district with her hiftbawd, tho late Mr.' James Welsh, of the Second Battalion. Fourteenth Regiment, 60 years ago. One daughter, Mrs. J. A*gopd, and two sons, Messrs. James and John Welsh, ar«, left,. Tbe occurred htst week, of an old veaiednt of Wha&aiajie m Uie person of Mrs. Emilv Lawaon, wife ot Mr. 1. Ttf. Lawn, licensed interpreter,, in her ' 57th year. She was born in Whakatane. being the eldest daughter of Captain BlUett, one oj fhe pioneers of the tlistrict. Her.'mother, why is siill living at the WhaUtaap Pa. is n high-burn Maori lady of the district. Ihe deceased leaves a family of five sons, three daughters a*d 18 grandt.bikh.en. One of her »ons, Mr. Samuel Lawson, joined the Maori Pioneer Battalion and was killed in action at Gallipot for a few years' l«mprary residence ot Te Kan a, ihe deceased lady spent practically nil her Kte in Whakatane,' Avhere she took / a leading part in all social matters amongst the Press.