DRUMMOND GRAVESITE ON HAWTHORNDEN

In the introduction of her 1969 book "The Drummonds of Hawthornden", Rica Erickson notes: "At 'Hawthorden Farm' in the Toodyay Valley of Western Australia, are four old graves. The headstones of soft sandstone ar deeply eroded and one is now nameless, the original lettering having disappeared long ago.
The first of the stones was erected over the body of Johnston, the youngest son of the Drummond family, who died at the age of twenty-five years in 1845, speared by a native. The second grave is that of his old father, James Drummond, the botanist, whoe died in 1863 at seventy-eight years of age. The third grave is that of Sarah, his wife, who died a year later, at about eighty-two years of age. The fourth and nameless grave could be that of their honoured second son James, who died in 1873, at the peak of his career and was buried beside his parents."