Historical information

Site marker of first cemetery at Pleasant Creek 1854 - 1861. One Tree Hill corner Griffiths and Lesliis Streets Stawell.
David John James
infant son of Ebenezer & Catherine James.
This headstone was discovered by a man who had purschaed a house in the area in the 1920's and on turning a slab of slate being used as a doorstep, found it to be this headstone.
It was place at the site by Robson, the Monumental Masons in 1934, Morrie Robson said he manufactured and replaced the side of the piece missing from the headstone.

Physical description

Three colour photographs showing site of memorial stones of One Tree Hill Cemetery site, Stawell.

Inscriptions & markings

Site of the first cemetery at Pleasant Creek 1854 -1861 Erected October 4th 1935.
Older Memorial difficult to read - "To the memory of D.J. James being a son of C. James died 1858".