Dunedin's Buried History

Thomas Ord’s headstone identifies itself as the first to be erected in the cemetery, although his was the 59th burial here. His gravesite makes an interesting place from which to consider what the cemetery must have looked like when there was just this one headstone present.

Erected
By
His children
In Loving Remembrance of
Thomas Thompson Ord,
Who Died August 7th 1873
In the 55th Year of his Age.
"Because I live ye shall live also". John XIV.19.

"I will not leave you comfortless. I will come
to you". John XIV.18.

G. Munro

FIRST MONUMENT ERECTED IN THIS CEMETERY.