A good deal of sickness is prevailing in this district; the doctors have their hands full. The Hospital has 18 patients in it. This is considerably above the average. Clyde is particularly fortunate, but the places around have epidemics in their midst.
I have just heard that a daughter of Mr Goodger, of Cromwell, has died from fever, but I did not hear of what kind. -Otago Daily Times, 28/3/1874.
Three funerals in one week is something terrible to record in a small township, but that is the bare statement of what took place in Cromwell last week. The sad bereavement sustained by Mr Goodger's family, (in the loss of the eldest son and daughter), being the first, and we may say the greatest, evoked the sympathy of the whole district, and a large assemblage gathered on Wednesday last to follow the remains to the grave, — the largest assemblage we perhaps have yet seen. The Rev. Father Mackay, of Queenstown, conducted the funeral service in a most impressive manner. On Friday another funeral took place, and on Sunday another, — that of Mr Scally's son, at which over a hundred persons attended, a large number coming from the Nevis, where Mr Scally resides. -Cromerll Argus, 31/3/1874.
OBITUARY.
Death has caused many shocks in our midst lately, but seldom has such a gloom been cast over our quiet town as that which resulted last Thursday morning, when the sad news quickly spread that Mrs Goodger, wife of Mr James Goodger, of Cromwell, had passed away suddenly on Wednesday evening, after a very short illness, at the age of 39 years. Deceased was a native of the Colony, and born at Port Chalmers, came to Cromwell in her youth with her patents, and was practically a native of the town. Being of a quiet and unassuming nature, she was greatly admired and respected by a wide circle of friends throughout the district. Dearest amongst her numerous relations who are left to mourn her loss, is a young family of three, and to all these, and her sorrowing husband, we extend our heartfelt sympathy in their time of trouble. The funeral, a private interment, took place in the old cemetery on Friday, the Rev. Father Hunt officiating at the grave. -Cromwell Argus, 23/9/1907.
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