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Burial ground CEM-522

Wolver Fontein 137, Plathuis, farm cemetery (Ladismith district)

0 graves recorded · Wolvefontein No. 137 (Ladismith)

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-458] A REFERENCE BURIAL GROUND, NOT A FAMILY ONE. Nobody in this record lies here, so far as it knows. It is here because It was empty because only three Western Cape collections had ever been pulled. THE MAP SAYS WHICH KIND IT IS: grounds with nobody of ours draw a PALE cross, family grounds a dark one. Coordinate and cemetery id are eGGSA's own, off the album page, converted out of the degrees and decimal minutes that page carries. Nothing here has been visited. eGGSA album "wolwefontein" in the Ladismith_Rural collection. GGSA cemetery id 2456. | [19 Aug 2026] TIED TO PAR-000290. The eGGSA album title reads 'Western Cape, LADISMITH district, Plathuis, Wolver Fontein 137, farm cemetery', which names the farm outright, and the coordinate sits 1.28 km from the centroid of Wolvefontein No. 137 and 2.40 km from Rietfontein A No. 139. That farm was pinned the same day off SG diagram 649/1838 (SRC-502), whose eastern boundary is labelled 'Gov ground surveyed for J C Els & Mar Oosthuyzen'. | *** THIS PROJECT'S HARVEST OF THE ALBUM IS INCOMPLETE. *** grave_photos holds 11 captions for this ground and the live album carries at least 15 named ones. THE FOUR MISSING ARE ALL CRAFFORD, which is the surname Frans came here asking about: CRAFFORD Anna Margarita nee VAN TONDER 1890-1949 | CRAFFORD Christoffel Frederick 1856-1945 & Elsie Maria v.d. VYVER 1857-1919 | CRAFFORD Isak 1877-1938 & Anna VAN ECK 1882-1953 | CRAFFORD Jan Abraham 1884-1956. Read off the live page 19 Aug 2026; the photo urls were not captured, so they are recorded here rather than in grave_photos, which is keyed on the url. LEAD-0253.

Where it is: -33.63695, 20.97000 · GGSA cemetery 2456 · Show it on the map

Photographed here, not yet read

16 photographs of this ground carry a caption on eGGSA that nothing in this project has yet matched to a person. The words are eGGSA's transcription of the stone, kept exactly as written; nobody here has read the photograph. Each one links to its own page on their site.

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The photographs are eGGSA's and stay on their site; this project links to them and does not copy them. Their albums are expressly incomplete, so a name missing here is not evidence that person is not buried here.