Adelaide Eva (Hall) Mitchell (1864 - 1905)

Born 7 May 1864 in Goodwood Park, South Australia, Australia

Ancestors

Wife of Charles Caines Mitchell — married 14 Sep 1889 in Goodwood, South Australia, Australia

Died 12 Jun 1905 at age 41 in Goodwood, South Australia, Australia

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Biography

Adelaide (Hall) Mitchell was born in the Colony of South Australia (1836-1900)

This profile is part of the Hall Name Study.

Adelaide was born in 1864, the child of Hubert Hall (abt.1834-) and Maria West (abt.1831-1917). ^[1]

In 1889 she married Charles Caines Mitchell (1862-). ^[2]

They had 4 children.

Adelaide was tragically drowned in a flooded Brownhill Creek, in 1905, aged 41 [41y 1m 6d]. ^[3]

A CREEK FATALITY. 1908. ^[4]

WOMAN DROWNED AT GOODWOOD.

SWEPT AWAY BY THE FLOOD

A sad case of drowning was reported to the police on Monday morning. Mrs. Adelaide Eva Mitchell, who resided at Regent street, Goodwood Park, through which suburb the Brownhill Creek flows, was in the act of reaching for driftwood with a rake when she lost her balance and fell into the stream. The current was running strongly, and the unfortunate woman was powerless to save herself. For a long period in the year the Brownhill Creek is dry in most parts, but heavy rains soon cause a big volume of water to flow. At about 7 o'clock on Monday morning the creek was high, and was gradually rising. An hour later, on account of sharp early morning showers in the hills, it was a banker, and debris of all kinds, from big logs of wood to oranges and other garden produce, went racing along on the surface of the stream. Mrs. Mitchell lived with her aged mother, Mrs. M. Hall, close against the creek. Her husband is away in Queensland. Shortly before 9 o'clock the family went to the banks of the creek, and Mrs. Mitchell, having procured a rake, stood close against the edge of the water and began to hook for pieces of firewood as they floated past. Mrs. Hall remarked. "Look out, you might fall in," and the deceased replied, "This is a good place to reach the logs from." The old lady then went into a neighbour's house, and left her daughter still engaged in her dangerous occupation. in company with two of her sons, aged 15 and 11 years. Suddenly the woman slipped into the flood and uttered a loud cry for assistance, but she was swept away downstream. An alarm was promptly raised. Several attempts were made to reach the helpless woman. A corporation employee who was repairing a small bridge several hundred yards from where she fell in was surprised to see a human body floating with the debris, and hastened to reach it, but to no purpose. The woman's head was quite submerged, and the appearance of the body led to the belief that she was then either dead or unconscious. A little further along the watercourse, Mr. S. Clough jumped in and managed to grab Mrs. Mitchell with one hand. He stuck manfully to his task, and was carried along for about 100 yards. Ultimately he had to relinguish his hold to prevent himself being hurled against a bridge over the Goodwood road. The body was afterwards seen by different persons as it was carried along the creek towards Black Forest. Constables Molloy and Hipwell, of the Goodwood Police Station, went out with dragging apparatus, and began a thorough search of the creek. They were reinforced by Constable Robb from Adelaide and Cpl. Allen and F.C. Deacon from Unley. The search party had no light task. The torrent subsided to a large extent, but a sufficient amount of water continued to flow to hamper operations. The officers and a large number of civilians followed the creek along its multifarious windings, and the time of search gradually lengthened into hours. It was expected that the body would be recovered near Mrs. Everard's property at Black Forest. The deceased was 41 years of age, and left four sons, two of whom attended the Goodwood School, and the others were quite young.

She was buried in the West Terrace Cemetery on 15th June 1905.

Funeral. 1905 ^[5]

THE FRIENDS of the late Mrs. ADELAIDE MITCHELL are informed that her Funeral will leave her mother's (Mrs. Hall's) residence, Regent-street, Goodwood, on THURSDAY, at 2.30 p.m., for the West-terrace Cemetery.

Sources

1. ↑ Birth - 31/281 South Australian BDM
2. ↑ Marriage - 160/835 South Australian BDM
3. ↑ Death - 310/307 South Australian BDM
4. ↑ 1905 'A CREEK FATALITY.', Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912), 12 June, p. 1.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208007307
5. ↑ 1905 'Family Notices', The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), 15 June, p. 2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5049703