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"Cape Province, South Africa, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972"
South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013; FHL Film Number: 4532659 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 60149 #469976 (accessed 12 June 2023)
Abraham Lombard death 24 Feb 1897 (age 51) in Queenstown, Cape Province, South Africa.
Article in Queenstown Free Press, dated Friday, 26 1897.
Found dead in a donga.
On Tuesday Mr. Abraham Lombard of Sterkstroom, came to Queenstown to visit the Agricultural Society's show. He parted from his friends at night, apparently in the best of health, but on Wednesday morning his dead body was seen in a donga at the bottom of Jouberty Street, below Bailey's bridge by Mrs. Styles, who sent a man named Baker to inform the Chief Constable of what she had discovered. The unfortunate man had evidently fallen a distance of 16 feet, alighting on his head on a stone. He must then have rolled over, as his face was buried in the water, which was about six inches deep. The body after being viewed by the C.C., was removed to the mortuary. The deceased's brother Mr. Anthony Lombard was in town at the time, and was informed by the police of the sad occurrence.
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Found dead in a donga. On Tuesday Mr. Abraham Lombard of Sterkstroom, came to Queenstown to visit the Agricultural Society's show. He parted from his friends at night, apparently in the best of health, but on Wednesday morning his dead body was seen in a donga at the bottom of Jouberty Street, below Bailey's bridge by Mrs. Styles, who sent a man named Baker to inform the Chief Constable of what she had discovered. The unfortunate man had evidently fallen a distance of 16 feet, alighting on his head on a stone. He must then have rolled over, as his face was buried in the water, which was about six inches deep. The body after being viewed by the C.C., was removed to the mortuary. The deceased's brother Mr. Anthony Lombard was in town at the time, and was informed by the police of the sad occurrence.