Charles Sutherland's gravestone, in the highest, steepest section of Dunedin's Southern Cemetery, is broken, on the ground and was covered with leaves when I found it.
DEATHS
SUTHERLAND - On January 23, 1909 at Hawkdun Station, St. Bathans, Charles George Gordon, third son of the late D. Sutherland, of Waikouaiti, Deeply mourned. -Evening Star, 25/1/1909.
OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS
ST. BATHANS. With sincere regret I have to report the death from pneumonia of Mr Gordon Sutherland, one of the employees of Hawkdun Station, at the early age of 23. The late Mr Sutherland passed away after a brief illness on Saturday morning last notwithstanding all the anxious care and comfort given him by the manager, Mr Walter Wilson, and Mrs Wilson. The funeral cortege to Oturehua on Monday was largely attended, included in it being many members of the St. Bathans Football Club, of which Gordon had been for some years a very skilful, prominent and much esteemed player. Off the field of play he was a young man who had rapidly risen in the esteem and affection of all around owing to his exemplary character. The burial took place in Dunedin, where his parents reside. Much sympathy is expressed throughout the district with his sorrowing mother in her sad bereavement. -Mt Ida Chronicle, 29/1/1909.
I BEG to tender my sincere Thanks to the many friends who so materially helped me, by their untiring attention and kindly sympathy, during the last sad illness of my deceased son, Charles George Gordon, who died at Hawkdun Station, St. Bathans, on January23rd, 1909. ELIZABETH SUTHERLAND. -Mt Ida Chronicle, 29/1/1909.
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