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Burgersdorp

George Augustus Kolbe and Margaret Downing lie under a cut-stone monument in the old cemetery here — names, London birthplaces, farm and dates carved on it, about forty miles from where their grandson wrote that he could not name them.

The place

NameBurgersdorp
KindTown
RegionNorth-eastern Cape
StandingDocumented

Why it is here

George Augustus Kolbe and Margaret Downing lie under a cut-stone monument in the old cemetery here — names, London birthplaces, farm and dates carved on it, about forty miles from where their grandson wrote that he could not name them.

WhenWhat
25 Nov 1867Margaret Downing dies, aged 64 years 9 months and 2 days
the Kolbe–Downing monument, still standing

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