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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Rotorua Cemetery - COMPLETED
« on: Monday 09 January 17 06:54 GMT (UK) »
William Johannes Theodore Lechner was the first editor of the Hot Lakes Chronicle. He died a pauper in 1886 and his friends took up a collection to mark his grave with a headstone. The person taking up the collection purchased a white wooden cross that was over the grave of a tourist, Mr Bainbridge, who died in the Tarawera eruption, and I understand had not accounted for the rest of the money by 1888. William Theodore had worked on the Bruce Herald for two years. Ref. Bruce Herald, 23.3. 1888 -Mr T. Lechner. He was my gt,gt grandfather.
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