According to the Government Gazette - Police Mortuary Report of 20 August 1896, Page 526a, the body was found on 26 February 1885.

This person is buried near the old ruins of Cadelgo Station.

The body of the deceased was found and buried near Callabona Creek.

The Government Gazette dated 12 August 1886, page 344b, under the section headed Police Mortuary Returns, listed a body had been found 3 miles from Haddon Downs Station; that the person had died of thirst. On 23 August 1886, a PUBLIC NOTICE appeared in the South Australian Register newspaper. It read: "CHINAMAN (name unknown)— Data of death or when reported, March 7 ; 30 years. 5 ft. 7 in high, medium build, sallow complexion, dark hair. Deceased was found dead near Haddon Downs station ; supposed perished for want of water. No inquest. Reported to F. Vaughan, Esq., J.P., of Birdsville."

According to the Government Gazette dated 15 August 1889, page 622a, under the section marked Police Mortuary Report, the body of the deceased was found 16 miles north of the Murnpeowie Homestead.

According to the Government Gazette dated 20 August 1896, Page 420a, under the section headed Police Mortuary Report, the body was found on a track between Blanchewater Station and Mt Freeling, under a ti-tree bush.

Wills was born at Totnes in the English county of Devon and came to Australia in 1863 with his father and brother. After working as a shepherd and assisting in his father's medical practice, he studied surveying and became an assistant to Professor Georg Neumayer at the magnetic and astronomical observatories in Melbourne. With this training and the patronage of Neumayer, who was one of the organisers of the Expedition, Wills was able to obtain the post of surveyor and astronomer. Wills became Burke's second-in-command. His seriousness, intelligence and self-discipline made him a perfect lieutenant for the exploring expedition whose purpose it was to cross the Australian continent from north to south. The party left Melbourne on August 20, 1860, and arrived at Cooper's Creek on November 11. This was the starting point of the journey north. On December 16, a dash was made for the far distant Gulf of Carpentaria. For all intents and purposes, the explorers' efforts were deemed successful. However, on their return to Coopers Creek, the man they had left in charge of their stores had vanished along with most of the stores. Burke was determined to make an effort to reach one of the South Australian stations. A start was made but lack of water compelled a return to Cooper's Creek. The unfortunate men were too feeble to make a fresh start and remained lonely and deserted, except for some friendly natives, who provided them with casual food. In a few days, Burke and Wills died from starvation about the same time. Their only surviving comrade, King, managed to subsist among the natives until rescued by a party sent out from Melbourne. Burke and Wills' bodies were found by Alfred Howitt and buried at Cooper Creek in 1861. Howitt went back to the Cooper in 1862, exhumed their remains and brought them to Melbourne where they were given a state funeral and re-buried in Melbourne General Cemetery in 1863. The cost of the original expedition and the subsequent searches was estimated at £57,000. However, the tragic story of Burke and Wills will always find honourable mention in the written histories of Australia. Wills was loyal to his leader even when he privately doubted the wisdom of some of Burke's decisions. As a scientist, he maintained his observations even when sheer survival had become the expedition's only goal. His final journal entries, notes and letters, written a few days before his death, display a complete lack of self-pity.

The deceased is buried in the Aboriginal Burial Ground on Innamincka Station. King Wilpie was a respected Rainmaker & Aboriginal Elder. He was the last of the Yantrawantra clan.

Elsie May had a sister, Grace Lily, born 28 December 1897 at Port Adelaide (Birth Registration 615/207, Port Adelaide).

Alias Scotty Bob. Wilson and Sagar were travelling together when they perished in December 1895. It was not until December 1897 that an Innamincka stockman came upon the body of the man known as Scotty, who was known to have relatives in Port Adelaide. The fellow had perished for want of water about six miles from Nappacoongie Well and about twenty-nine miles from Innamincka. He was in the company of William Sagar, or Saggo, who is also supposed to have perished. The men were only about two miles from the Nappacoongy Well, where their swags were found, when they turned back and perished. By the tracks of the men, it appears that Sagar, the younger of the two men, tried to encourage Wilson along, and the marks of the two men walking together and bearing each other up, were plainly visible.

The Police Mortuary Report of 12th July 1877, Page 101a, states that the deceased was English, a cook from Wilpena & Woolundunga. He left Government. Gums (Farina) on 13th December 1877 for Mt. Lyndhurst. His swag was found 11 miles from the homestead. The conclusion was that he had died of sunstroke.