Outback Graves Markers

Nils BENGTSON

Burial Location:Siberia Cemetery  (details...)
Occupation: Prospector
Place of Death: Waverley, 15 miles west of Ora Banda
Date of Death: 14 June 1919
Age:68 years
Cause of Death:Heart Attack
OGM Ref#: 0212
Headstone:OGM Aluminium
Monument Style: Outback Grave Marker
This is a photograph of plaque number 212 for NILS BENGTSON at SIBERIA

REF 0212 NILS BENGTSON SIBERIA

Biography

Nils was famed in the goldfields of Western Australia as the finder of the gold nugget named "Little Hero", which was taken into Roebourne from Shaw Falls, Nullagine, on 25 July 1890, by five men, John Williams, John Doyle, John Pryde Charles Capner and Nils Bengtson. The gold weighed 460 ounces, including two big nuggets, one weighing 333 oz. 8dwt. Bengtson was apparently the one who unearthed the nugget.

Birth Details:Circa 1851 in Helsinki, Finland
Death Certificate:7/1919 under the name of "Bangston"; District Coolgardie
Comments:The plaque at the cemetery states his date of death, as do most documents, as 14 June 1919. However, there are some which state 14 January in error.