Henry Lonsdale was the fourth child in a family of nine.  His father was a teacher but around the mid 1870s he took up professional portrait photography, a profession he continued to ply until they migrated to Australia.  Some of his photographs are still used in education subjects.

The Abell family boarded the ship Compta and arrived in Brisbane on 10 November 1882.

Henry Lonsdale's father passed away 20 May 1884 and is buried at the Toowong Cemetery.  His mother, Mary, died 11 September 1909 and his sisters, Annie, died 10 March 1888, Kate died 30 January 1915 and Edith Darling died 6 March 1925.  They are buried with their father.

To provide for her family, Mary ran a private school in Toowong.

In 1898, Henry is registered as living at Duingal, south west of Bundaberg.  Bu 1900, Henry had returned to Brisbane and was living with his brother, William, in the last house on the left from the Railway Station on Stanley Terrace in the suburb of Taringa, Brisbane.  He was employed as a clerk.  In 1905, Henry returned to Stanton Harcourt in the Wide Bay area and tried his hand at being a miner.  By early 1906, Henry returned to his home on Stanley Terrace, Taringa, and took up work as a clerk once again.  Later the same year, Henry moved to Gin Gin and tried his hand at being a General Agent.  He didn't stay with this occupation and by 1908 was employed in the district as a labourer.  The following year, his mother passed away and was buried with her husband.

The next mention of Henry is in September 1911 when he arrived in Langlo Crossing.  His occupation was listed as a carpenter.  Within ten months of arriving at Langlo Crossing, Henry took ill with asthma (or some throat condition) and died at the Langlo Crossing Hotel.  He was buried the same day in the Langlo Crossing Historical Cemetery.

This is a “lost’ grave.  William Brown was buried at the back of the original Langlo Crossing Hotel.  There are no markers and no ground disturbance indicating the place of this burial and the area is now private property.

William Brown’s memorial has been placed in a section of the Langlo Crossing Historical Cemetery, so he is not forgotten.

The stillborn baby was the daughter of Kate Campbell, an Indigenous girl.  Kate had been living with the Coleman family at Langlo Crossing from about the age of four. She had attended the local school and at the time of her pregnancy was working at the Royal Hotel
in Langlo Crossing.  Members of the community spoke of her as being “always good tempered.”

Kate was between sixteen and nineteen when she gave birth to her baby girl.  She was unaware of being pregnant until the last couple of
months. In the latter part of her pregnancy Kate was asked by a number of people in the community if she was pregnant and she denied it.  Kate spoke of “keeping company with a man named Pat Perkins and that no other person is the father of the child.”

Kate gave birth to her daughter in the bathroom of the Hotel. She wrapped her baby daughter in a towel. The police were notified and they gave instructions for the little girl to be buried.

Kate had left Langlo Crossing and moved to Mount Morris by 1920 before moving to Charleville in 1921.

Leslie Walker Coleman was the youngest of eleven children born to Henry Coleman and Margaret Jane Walker.  Henry was the licensed victualler of the Langlo Crossing Hotel.  Leslie’s mother, Margaret Jane Powis, formerly Coleman née Walker, is also buried at the Langlo Crossing Historical Cemetery.

According to the Queensland Times on 14 January 1903, on Monday 12 January, Leslie Coleman, aged 12 years, died suddenly. "It appears that he had been suffering from dengue fever, and was being brought to Charleville for medical treatment, but when at the Box Creek Hotel, he was suddenly seized with a fit of coughing, and died. Much sympathy is expressed for his parents."

Dorothy Dulhunty, a domestic servant at Mount Morris, took ill there, and Mr. U.E. Parry-Okeden at once despatched her for the local hospital; but unfortunately the poor girl succumbed before reaching town.

The death took place at Langlo, and Messrs. T.G. Miller and U.E. Parry-Okeden, J.P., gave an order for the burial.

The Edwards family moved to Langlo Crossing just before George was born.  He was then born in Charleville, the fourth of six children in
Edward Edwards and Annie Holland’s family. George’s father, Edward, was a stockman and the family continued to live at Langlo Crossing for many years.
George’s brothers and sisters attended the Langlo Crossing State School. His parents are buried in the Charleville Cemetery.

The deceased died of erysipelas, which is a skin infection.  It is a form of cellulitis, but unlike cellulitis, which affects deeper tissue, erysipelas only affects the upper layers of the skin.  He died on the Cobb and Co coach on his way from Adavale to Charleville. He died at six minutes past five in the evening about four miles from Kahmoo Mulga, now known as Langlo Crossing.

John Gilbert had been working at Milo Station. He owned a horse, saddle and bridle. He also had an amount of £9 10s that his mates at Milo had raised to assist him.  His mother still lived in his hometown of Dalby, Queensland.

The enquiry was told John Gilbert had been sick for about five weeks and had recovered a little before having a relapse.  He was endeavouring to reach Charleville to get medicine and attendance. As it was evident that the deceased died from natural causes (supposed erysipelas), it was scarcely necessary to hold an enquiry.

Richard Bligh, the Police Magistrate from Boothulla who was a passenger on the coach, held an Inquiry as best he could but stated that he could get no Bible to administer an oath to the witnesses.  He concluded that there were no suspicious circumstances relating to the death.

The body was left at Kahmoo Mulga and Mr. Bligh gave an order for burial to William Martin who kept an accommodation house at Kahmoo Mulga.

Eileen Angel Golding’s father, Richard Golding, and uncle, Herbert Golding, moved from their property, Goldsborough, near Roma, and took up land near Langlo Crossing (Por.2 Mount Morris) in early 1898. Their land selections were Grafton Plains and Ravenscourt.

Eileen Angel Golding was born in Charleville, the fourth child of Richard Golding and Margaret McPhie.  It is thought she was named after one of Richard’s sisters Angel Eveline Golding.  Eileen was baptised by the Anglican Bush Brothers at Langlo Crossing on Tuesday 8th August 1905.  She passed away on Christmas Eve of heat apoplexy and was buried in the Langlo Crossing Cemetery on Christmas Day 1905.

The Golding families were resident in the district until around 1912 when they took up land around Isisford. The land they took up did not support the two families and Richard moved with his family to live in North Rockhampton.

Albert Johnston was described as being five feet seven inches with brown hair when he died.  His worldly goods were the clothes he was wearing, some workers’ union tickets and some old blankets.

He died wrapped in his bedding on the floor in the lounge of the old Langlo Crossing Hotel building after spending the previous cold winter’s night sleeping on the verandah of the new hotel.  

It was decided to hold an inquest on 21st June 1914.  The deceased man had been sleeping in the lounge room of the old hotel for about a month prior to his death. He was not being charged for his board and only had to pay for his meals and drink. It had been noticed that he spoke hoarsely and was destitute. Until shortly before he died he did odd jobs around the hotel.

Daniel Lynch, the licensee of the hotel knew the man as Bert but was surprised to be told the man’s name was George Henry
Saisell. The name Saisell was recorded on the Worker’s Union ticket found in the dead man’s possessions. Police Constable Michael Walsh stated at the inquest that he had conversation with the man prior to his death and was told that the deceased’s name was Albert Johnston and that he wished for his name to be recorded on the Federal Roll.
The registration of death was officially recorded under the name of Albert Johnston while the inquest was officially recorded
under the name George Henry Saisell.

Additional research found that George Henry Saisell was a shearer working in the District around the time of Albert Johnston’s death.
Prior to moving to Langlo Crossing, Albert Johnston had been working as a cook for the shearers and is presumed to have stolen the workers union tickets and pocket book with family information from George Henry Saisell at one of the sheds.  George Henry Saisell remained shearing in the district for another year before returning to his family in New South Wales, enlisting in the A.I.F. and serving his country in WW1.  George Henry Saisell came back from the war; married and had a family.  He passed away 21 April 1929, aged 49 years.

This gentleman's burial is listed as being Langlo Crossing, not Langlo Crossing Cemetery.  

This is a “lost" grave.  Thomas Jones committed suicide and it is stated only that he was buried at Langlo Crossing.  The registration of death does not mention the cemetery. As Thomas committed suicide, his exact burial site has not been identified. The witness at the burial was the licensed victualler of the Langlo Crossing Hotel.  There are no markers and there is no ground disturbance indicating the place of this burial.

Thomas Jones’ memorial has been placed in a section of the Langlo Crossing Historical Cemetery in order that he is not forgotten.

On 9 September, a newspaper article advised: Dr. Overend left Charleville by motor car yesterday to attend a married man named J. Morrison at Langlo Crossing. Morrison, who was an employee of the Mitchell Rabbit Board, and was suffering from acute pneumonia, died soon after the arrival of the doctor.

Prior to his death, John Morrison had been employed by the Mitchell Rabbit Board for a number of years, laying poison to rid the country of the rabbit plaque.  John Morrison worked from a cart with a partner, usually within a radius of five to seven miles of the rabbit proof fence and during an average day each would lay out up to fourteen pounds of poison to kill rabbits. They also dug pitfall traps in select areas.

In June 1905 the Overseer of the Mitchell Rabbit Board reported that he had burnt one thousand one hundred and eleven rabbit scalps which John Morrison and his partner, Williams, had poisoned or trapped.  The men had been working between the top of the range on
Boothulla, Bierbank and the eastern boundary of South Comongin.

The date of death on the official Death Registration for this young man is 20th December 1914  However, the inquest records that he is thought to have died about 18th December 1914.  He is buried in the Langlo Crossing Historical Cemetery.

It is thought the deceased was 71 years of age when she passed away. This is supported by the entry on her registration of death where it is recorded that she was 18 years of age when she married her first husband in 1866 (calculates to 1848). Her headstone records her age as 67 years.

When Margaret Jane Walker married Henry Coleman at Albury in 1866, their home address was recorded as being at Twelve Mile Creek, Albury, New South Wales.

Henry and his family were living at Bowna, New South Wales, in 1867 and in 1881 the family left the nearby settlement of Dora Dora where Henry had been farming and working as a carrier.  They began their move to Queensland. The registration of birth for their daughter, Melinda, born in 1881, was registered at Hay in South West New South Wales.
In 1887 Henry was successful in a Crown Land Sale, purchasing a two rood block of land in Charleville. He was also granted a
license to cut and remove logs.  Henry and his family moved to Langlo Crossing around 1895 and took over as licensed victualler of the Langlo Crossing Hotel and store from his niece’s husband, Francis Herbertson.  As well as the hotel, Henry and Mary ran the store and also owned and bred livestock.

In June 1901 Henry purchased a store building in Charleville with the initial intention of dismantling the said building, transporting the pieces and building a hotel some eight miles further on from the Langlo Hotel. It was reported that over eight tons of iron was moved.
Circumstances must have changed, as Henry built his new hotel, the Kahmoo Mulga, within a couple of hundred yards of his former hotel, The Langlo. The sale of the Langlo Hotel from Henry Coleman to Andy Atkins, a former Cobb and Co coach driver, was applied for in July 1901.  The newly built Kahmoo Mulga Hotel was open for business in 1903 as official records record for the first time the issue of two Licensed Victualler’s Licenses for Langlo Crossing.

On Wednesday, 8 May 1907, Henry was in his garden when he attacked by one of his boars. He was severely injured and taken to Charleville for medical treatment. He passed away some six days later and was buried in the Charleville Cemetery.
His wife, Margaret, continued to run the Kahmoo Mulga Hotel at Langlo Crossing. She was supported by a number of her children
who lived in the little town. In 1914, Margaret married David Robert Powis, who was some twenty years younger than her and working at her hotel as a barman.  The family did not approve of this union as it was thought that he married her for her money.

By July 1916, Margaret had transferred the licensed victualler’s license to her new husband, David, and the name of the Hotel was
changed from Kahmoo Mulga Hotel to the Royal Hotel.  In early November 1918, Margaret took ill and was admitted to a private hospital in Charleville. After a few days, she was feeling much better and decided to go home. She passed away soon after arriving home.

She was buried the next day at the Langlo Crossing Cemetery and it is hoped she is buried near her son, Leslie.  David, her second husband, continued to run the hotel until mid-1921 when he left the little town.

Henry Schoder was thought to be around seventy years of age when he died.  He lived in a bark hut about two hundred yards from the Langlo Crossing Hotel near the school.

He had been employed as a shepherd by Andy Atkins, the publican.  Henry had been ill about a month before his death and it was
thought he had recovered.  He was unwell the day prior to his death and members of the community had checked on him. Margaret Atkins, the publican’s wife, had made some bread with milk and rum for him. The school teacher had checked in on him after school and had gone to the hotel to tell them Henry was unwell.  Andy Atkins had gone to check on the old man at midnight and Henry told him he thought he would be okay in the morning.  Andy found Henry deceased early the following morning. He notified the police, ordered a coffin to be made and arranged for Henry’s burial in the Langlo Crossing Cemetery.