Biography

The stillborn baby was the daughter of Kate Campbell, an Indigenous girl.  Kate had been living with the Coleman family at Langlo Crossing from about the age of four. She had attended the local school and at the time of her pregnancy was working at the Royal Hotel
in Langlo Crossing.  Members of the community spoke of her as being “always good tempered.”

Kate was between sixteen and nineteen when she gave birth to her baby girl.  She was unaware of being pregnant until the last couple of
months. In the latter part of her pregnancy Kate was asked by a number of people in the community if she was pregnant and she denied it.  Kate spoke of “keeping company with a man named Pat Perkins and that no other person is the father of the child.”

Kate gave birth to her daughter in the bathroom of the Hotel. She wrapped her baby daughter in a towel. The police were notified and they gave instructions for the little girl to be buried.

Kate had left Langlo Crossing and moved to Mount Morris by 1920 before moving to Charleville in 1921.