G is for Grave Traditional Cache
KellickGuider: Removed by roadworks.
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An easy roadside cache. For safety please pull right off the road and watch geokids and geodogs.
The grave is believed to be that of Alexander (or Allen) Eustace Howard b July 1848 who drowned in the nearby Spring Creek on 2 Aug 1849. His father, John Howard, was a shepherd for Alexander Watt of Watton. His mother was Eliza Grady, daughter of John Piper Jnr. The family lived in a nearby hut.
John died in 1852 and Eliza married Thomas Anderson of Killongbutta in 1854.
Local lore says that some time after Thomas died in 1889 Eliza with the assistance of George Pateman exhumed the baby, placed the bones in a shoe box and carried them on horseback to the Killongbutta Cemetery where the remains were reburied.
There is a headstone at Killongbutta for Allen Eustace Howard but it has his birth date not his death date.
The grave is on private property - please do not enter as the cache is not. Killongbutta Cemetery is on private property.
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