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- William TERWIN - Miller of Woburn, Alice Dist.
"*Mr George Terwin: his son (newspaper cutting Abt. 1933
There was widespread sorrow throughout the town and district when it became known on Saturday afternoon that Mr George Terwin, the old miller of Woburn, had been called to his rest.
With his passing one more well known and respected personality is removed from the historic Tyumie Valley, and many as they go backwards and forwards through Woburn will miss George Terwin, who has resided there for so many long years. Mr Terwin was born in Grahamstown nearly 75 years ago, and came as a little boy with his parents to Woburn; where his farther took over the mill. He came from fine old English stock, his father having been born at Kings Kurzwell, Devon, and subsequently migrating as a settler to South Africa. In those early days Woburn was a place of considerable activity as much wheat and grain was grown in the valley; and the rust which is now so serious a problem to the wheat farmers was unknown.
Also the modern steam roller mill were unknown, there were no railways, and most of the grain grown in a wide area was carted to Woburn to be ground. The Terwin family were well placed financially and did a big
business, erecting a new water-wheel mill. This work of building and fixing up the new mill was undertaken by a highly skilled mill-wright, Mr James Brown from Tinwald, Dumfriesshire in Scotland; and in time the late George Terwin married his daughter Margaret, who survives him, and is one of the most beloved residents in the Valley. There were four sons and a daughter, Mrs Harold Smith, whose husband now owns the old Terwin property. Of the sons only Preston could be at the funeral, as Robert is in Lichtenberg, Douglas at Umzimkulu, and Frank in Zululand. We offer them all our deep sympathy in this hour of bereavement.
The late Mr.Terwin,who must have seen many changes in his life, liked nothing more than talk about the old days, and many were the incidents which he recounted of the wilder and unsettled life of his youth when the
farmers in these parts lived in constant danger of war, and the terrible massacre of 1850 was an ever present reality, and not as it is now, a mere memory of the past. In those days it was all horses, long rides and drives from one town to another, and always armed, while Mr. Terwin was acknowledged as one of the finest horsemen in the district. In his passing a link with the past has snapped, and the pity is that many of his experiences of earlier days have not found their way into print.
On Sunday afternoon St Bartholomew's Church was crowded with farmers from all quarters, many of them being unable to find seats. The service was taken by the Rector, the Rev. H.L. Henchman, who delivered an
appropriate address.After two hymns were sung, the procession moved to the grave where the Rev.H.B. Henchman read "Man that is born of a woman" and said a few words, the service closing with the hymn "Abide with me."
The chief mourners were, the widow, Ethel, and Preston, Mr. Percy Terwin, (brother) and Mrs. Terwin's two married sisters and their husbands, Mr. and Mrs, Gibson and Mr. and Mrs....'.unreadable ' The pall-bearers were Messrs A J Smith, W Francis, D J McLeod, P Loest, W Brown and G W Knott, while floral tributes were sent by the following: - Loving wife and the boys; Harold Ethel and children; Brown family; Miss M Stewart;
Mr & Mrs Garfield Ralph; D J McLeod and family; Rev and Mrs Henchman; Mrs Thomas and family; Mr and Mrs Little;Mr and Mrs Cusens and family; Ivy and Wallie; George Bauer; Mrs McIntosh and Miss Pollock; Mr and Mrs W Dewey; Audrey and Ernest Francis (Johannesburg); Mr and Mrs D Ballantyne; Mrs J Knott; Mjilo; Mrs N Lock, Lorna and Miss Gray; Pickie Lock; Mrs J Pollock and family; Pat Amy and family; Miss Tong ( Grahamstown); Miss Petersen (Johannesburg);Peggy Kinsley and Athalie Lock; Nurse Prince; Mr and Mrs A W Terwin and family; Archie Terwin; Mrs Frank Lock, Rona and Athalie; Mr Edwin Lock (Grahamstown); Mr and Mrs McGillivray and family; Mr and Mrs E D M (unreadable); Eric and Molly Dewey; Mr H Dewey and family; Will, Mary and family; Athel Ivy and family;Mr and Mrs Ferguson; Mr and Mrs W Schmidt, Will Jane and family; Bernard and Lucy; Uncle Tom and family; Mr and Mrs Percy Lock and family and Emma; Athel and family; Lilian; Mr and Mrs Humphreys and Ethel; Mr Robinson; Mrs Harber and family; Paul Lily and family; all at
Battlesden; H H Loest and family; Mr and Mrs Senick; Mr Darlow: Mr and Mrs Munro and Miss Munro; Nellie Tonnie and Mr Hazell; Mr and Mrs Scutt; Mr and Mrs A J Smith, Joyce and George;Major and Mrs Geddes; all at Hopefield; Mr and Mrs and Miss Robertson; Mrs Painter and family; TJ Summerton; Sister Humphreys and a lot of others without names. H.H.L. " (ex Roger Dowell;) [3]
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