Biography

Deceased died adjacent to the No 3 Well in the Nungarra area of Black Range in the Sandstone district. In about 2000, the family sent an inscribed plaque for this previously unmarked grave and a local identity named John (Trouty) Bennett, was able to place it at the site and surround the grave with iron railing. Sidney Elver, and their brother-in-law, Charles Wyvill, were travelling from Lake Darlot to Cue on their way home to Queensland, having just buried Sidney's brother, Robert Elver, at Lake Darlot. Sidney became too ill to travel any further, died and was buried near their campsite. Mrs Jean Cattanach, of Wishart in Queensland, wrote: "It was the family's understanding that Great-Grandfather Elver lost money in the bank crash of the time (believed to have been the 1893 Depression) and his two younger sons, Robert and Sidney, with their good friend and brother-in-law, Charles Wyvill, decided to travel to Western Australia in the hope they would find enough gold to replace the money lost. But it was not to be and the big tragedy was that the two Elver boys lost their lives."