In Affectionate Remembrance of Robert Gibson, husband of Catherine Lily Gibson, Who was Killed by the accidental discharge of a gun, on the 22nd June, 1880, at Serpentine Creek, Victoria, aged 26 years

[GIBSON, Robert, 1856-1880]

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and was interred in the Bridgewater-on-Loddon Cemetery, 27th June, 1880. [Sandhurst?] : [s.n.], 1880. Die-cut mourning card, 75 x 114 mm; light foxing, otherwise in very good condition. A poignant mourning card recording the accidental death of Robert Gibson near Serpentine Creek, northwest of Bendigo, in June 1880. Robert had married 17-year-old Catherine Lily Threlfall, of Inglewood, two years earlier, in 1878. Not only was Catherine now widowed at just 19, but she was also expecting the couple's first child at the time of the tragedy: their son, Robert John Gibson, named in honour of the father who would never hold him, was born a short time later. The following report appeared in Bendigo Advertiser, 24 June 1880: 'FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.Our Inglewood correspondent furnishes, andalso a correspondent at theSerpentine, particulars by telegraph of a shocking accidentwhich happened on Tuesday to a young mannamed Robert Gibson,a native of the colony,who went out in the afternoon opossum shooting with a double-barrel gun. As be did notreturn at night, it was feared that an accidenthad occurred, and a number of the neighborswent out to search for him. They however returned unsuccessful. At daylight another searchwas instituted, and this time he was found byMr. Mossop lying dead on the ground, withthe left side of his head completely blownaway. The gun was lying between hislegs and the ramrod grasped in hishand. How the accident happened canonly be surmised. It is believed that he wasloading one barrel when the other accidentallywent off, and shot him in the head. He leavesa widow, a daughter of Mr. Threfall, Bridgewater, aged nineteen years, and to whom he wasmarried a little over a year ago. His motherresides in Sandhurst, and the intelligence of hisawful death must have been a sad blow to her.Deceased was twenty-four years of age, and hadbeen in the employment of Mr. Joel Horwood,of Bridgewater Park, for about ten years. Hewas always a steady, useful, and industriousservant, and at the time of his death, had charge ofMr. Horwood's estate and stock at Serpentine. A magisterial inquiry was held at Serpentine yesterday afternoon, and a finding recorded that deceased was accidentally shot bythe discharge of firearms.'. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 43802

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