In
Loving
Memory
Of
ALEXANDER
HILL
Died 24th August 1915
(The rest of this headstone is not discernable from the photographs)
The deceased had been suffering from tuberculosis for 3 or 4 years before his death. He had lived in Victoria for 20 years before arriving in Western Australia.
Alexander's father, George James Hill, was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, 20 April 1835. He married Madeline Keziah Beard in Victoria in 1868. He died 1881 and his widow moved to Kookynie to live. She died in 1913 and is buried in Kookynie with her grandson, Wallace William Alexander, who died in 1911. Their stories are told in this website.
Alexander left an estate valued at £611 to his wife, Irene Myrtle Hill.