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Event EVT-000320

Frans Stephanus Botma dies at Merweville, meant for burial at Skoorsteen

4 April 1936 · family · Merweville

Stomach cancer, after three months. Seventy-six, a veeboer, and the last of the Spreeufontein title-holder's sons to be recorded on this ground. The family meant to carry him back over the district line to Skoorsteen.

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