The Angel on Sarah Ann Ellis’ Grave
Sarah Ann’s angel is tender, personal, idiosyncratic … she tells us that the mason was empathic; that he was sad for this family who had lost their baby girl at one month old. She holds her trumpet and wreath, the symbol of her victory over death as she flies up towards Heaven. It is said Dan Herbert carved the head and footstones; if so, it is clear that he had learned his trade among the gravestones of an ancient people elsewhere in the world.
2 hours at the archives all for one sentence
It was the report that I had sought yesterday afternoon in the archive’s rolls of microfilms of the Colonial Secretary’s correspondence (CSO1-654-14662 Z1904). Henry Richardson had accepted a situation as a shopman in Campbell Town. I thought this was reasonable proof that this was the same bloke who had survived the wreck of the Hibernia.