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HARVEY'S RETURN - Kangaroo Island SA

This little cemetery lies at the side of the road to Cape Borda 
Lighthouse just above the start of the bush track that leads to 
Harvey's Return on the Western end of Kangaroo Island. It is 
surrounded by picturesque natural bushland and has a silver-
painted wrought iron fence surrounding the gravesites, with a row
of treated pine stumps outside the iron fence. Memorials within
range from ornate white marble headstones to simple white painted
wooden crosses.


Bronze Plaque laid in stone outside Cemetery Fence:-

HARVEY'S RETURN CEMETERY
This cememtery is the resting place of sixteen persons who lived at 
the Cape Borda Lighthouse complex.

The earliest contemporary record is the burial of Captain Woodward 
on 13th September 1858.

'A Memorial to those early pioneers when the only access to this area 
was by ship at Harvey's Return'

Erected by the Department of Transport 1984
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White painted wooden cross
ARTHUR MAIN
Son of Light Keeper
Died 30-11-1877
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White painted wooden cross
IN MEMORY
** this cross has no name on it
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White painted wooden cross
IRENE KOPP
Daughter J.E.K
Died 7-9-1895
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White painted wooden cross
JANE E. KOPP
Wife of Light Keeper
Died 19-4-1903
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White painted wooden cross
THOMAS WELLS
Son of Light Keeper
Died 5-1-1873
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White painted wooden cross
IN MEMORY
** this cross has no name on it
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White painted wooden cross
AUGUSTA WILLS
Wife of Light Keeper
Died 22-8-1884
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White painted wooden cross
IN MEMORY
** this cross has no name on it
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White painted wooden cross
In Memory of
G. Woodward
Died
Sept. 13
1858
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short plain white marble headstone
In Memory of
William Thom Main
died 9th May 1875
aged 7 years and 6 months
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ornate white painted metal headstone
Captain Edward Kerr
died October 1895
aged 54 years

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Taller white marble headstone with dark cross on it

Sacred to the memory of the infant
daughter of Charles and Mary Ann Johnson
died July 19th 1882
aged 1 month
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Tall white cross
In Memory of
G.W. Woodward
died 
13th September 1858
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White crosss placed facing all the other memorials in the cemetery

Lilly Jenneson
died 14 July 1884
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