Henry Patrick (1859-23/3/1874) and Mary Ann (1861-23/3/1874) Goodger. "the sympathy of the whole district"

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.  -Cromwell Argus, 31/3/1874.

The town of Cromwell is not so advantageously situate as might be, both for the comfort and health of its inhabitants. As like most of the earlier settled places, the people delighted to locate themselves as near the gold workings as possible, consequently, as the gold was for the most part being obtained on the banks of the Kawarau and Clutha Rivers, which here form a junction, the first residents got as close to the water's edge as was possible and consistent with safety. The main thoroughfare — Melmore Terrace — is thus necessarily low lying, and which has, perhaps, been the cause of the late plague of typhoid fever which visited the place, and carried off so many of the inhabitants. This visitation is happily now at an end, and is is to be hoped that the improved sanitary arrangements of the town have stamped it out for ever.  -Otago Witness, 22/8/1874.

Cromwell Old Cemetery.