Grave of Johannes Klue, Scheepers commando, Remhoogte - eGGSA album description
website · consulted 2026-08-07
- Type
- website
- Repository
- eGGSA (Genealogical Society of South Africa), Western Cape, PRINCE ALBERT district, Reim Hoogte 167_3, Remhoogte, farm cemetery. Captions by Annel Meyer.
- Reference
- GGSA cemetery ID 1359, GPSID 8959, GPS -33 16.914, 22 24.630
- Consulted
- 2026-08-07
The citation as it was given
The album carries a narrative account of the skirmish of 2 February 1901, which eGGSA in turn attribute to a thread on saforums.co.za (topic 8254.5). SO IT IS A SECOND-HAND ACCOUNT AND SHOULD BE READ AS ONE - it is not a despatch, a court record or a regimental diary, and no primary source for it has been seen here. It is recorded because it is specific, because it names people and ground, and because its geography is independently checkable against this project's own coordinates - which it passes. IT ALSO CONTRADICTS ITSELF AGAINST THE STONE: the account says Klue and Boyd were both buried in Wolwekloof, yet the grave photographed is on Remhoogte 167. [TO VERIFY]
Kept verbatim. This project contradicts published genealogies and corrects a family's own oral tradition, so every claim has to be checkable by someone who was not in the room.
What rests on this source
People
- Johannes Kleu (d. 1901, Remhoogte) about 1878 – February 1901