In the news today (https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/8100440/us-ambassador-caroline-kennedy-pays-tribute-to-overlooked-eureka-hero/ )
The United States' ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, expects to arrive at the at the White Hills cemetery in Bendigo where John Joseph died. Joseph was one of the 13 men charged high treason in the wake of what the authorities called riots.
To be found guilty could have meant the death penalty.
Joseph is featured with others facing high treason charges in an engraving that circulated in media reports of the time, but he is pictured to the back.
The authorities decided to stick him on trial first.
Some might wonder whether that is because he was an African American in an overtly racist society.
This was a place where a journalist covering the courts found it appropriate write that Joseph had "a stupid and vacant expression of countenance".
Another wrote that the 13 men were a "mongrel crew of German, Italian and Negro rebels".
Raffaello Carboni, the well respected leader and Italian expat who spent time with Joseph in custody awaiting the high treason trials, said that under his "dark skin" was a "warm, good, honest, kind, cheerful heart' and 'a sober, plain-matter-of-fact contented mind".
Maybe the lawyers wanted to get the treason trials rolling with what they thought would be an easy win.
If that was the case, the strategy was a complete flop.
A jury acquitted Joseph and his supporters carried him shoulder-high through a cheering, 10,000 strong crowd outside a Melbourne courtroom.
It had taken them half an hour to deliberate. The rest of the high treason trials ended in acquittals or abandonments.
Joseph died four years later.
Until now, there have been few clues the White Hills cemetery holds a man of Joseph's stature.
There are some opulent graves there, though not as much in the section he lies in.