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Eastern Cape, FORT BEAUFORT district, Post Retief, Cemetery

Cemetery information:-
Additional information sent in by David Butler:
There are at least ten 1820 Settlers buried in the cemetery and given the English surnames in the burial register and their corresponding ages it is feasible that there are at least another ten settler graves in the graveyard mostly in unmarked graves . Settlers John Joseph Smith snr and his French wife Marie Anne de Fallaux are buried in the heart of the graveyard close to its original core. Smith was known by his nickname “French” Smith and had settled his French-speaking family in the eastern side of the valley on the farm “Haartebeesfontein” (now Waylands) that he had aqcquired from trekboer Willem Adriaan Piek in 1835 after his trading store at Balfour had been looted and destroyed during the devastating 6th Frontier War 1835. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour,_Eastern_Cape
Smith further acquired the large farm “Driefontein” and his kloof became known as Smiths Kloof or French hoek and was situated on what was then known as de Waal’s River but is now generally accepted as part of the headwaters of the Koonap River.

To the left of the core of the graveyard is the cast iron grave marker without specific inscription that marks the grave of Sergeant William Salt husband of the legendary Elizabeth Salt – heroine of the Battle of Grahamstown 1819.
After Elizabeth’s sudden death at the age of 65 on her birthday in the vicinity of Tarkastad William Salt had continued to live under the care of their only child Elizabeth Margaret who was married to John Joseph Smith jnr and was living at “Hartebeesfontein”. Elizabeth Smith’s 35 year old husband 1820 settler John Joseph Smith jnr had died a few months before the death of her mother in 1850 and is also buried in an unmarked grave in the cemetery. — at Waylands Country House.
Acknowledgements to Dr Carl Kritzinger.

Album complete.

eGGSA captions by: Esmé van der Westhuizen and Wilna Eygelaar.

The GGSA Cemetery DVD only has information on the location of the cemetery
Cemetery ID: 4000

Google Earth Project Information:-
GPSID: 4742
GPS: +/- -32 30.516, 26 31.643

Date: 30 Mar 2011
Contributed by: eGGSA
Size: 101 items
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