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Wednesday 11 September 2024
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Compassion leads to headstone mission ANNE HARDIE It all began when 86-year-old Graeme Cotton decided to tidy up his grandparents’ graves and then compassion drove him to clean the surrounding headstones
where names could no longer be read. Now he has been busy at several cemeteries, spraying headstones and grave surrounds for lichen and moss, sweeping layers of foliage from the plots and generally
cleaning them up out of respect for those who are buried there. His search for his own ancestors has led him to cemeteries around the district, including his great-great-great grandfather and grandmother, John and Jan-
et Kerr, whose weathered graves date back to the late 19th century. The Kerrs came from Scotland on the Fifeshire and were the first to plough land in the region – at the site that is now the Buxton Carpark in Nelson.
It has all been quite a history lesson of his own family and other families in the cemeteries. Being Graeme, once he had spruced up his own family’s plots,
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Chris Ashley with enough whitebait for dinner. Photo: Anne Hardie. See page 4.
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