EPITAPH: SERIES II. SALAMAN’S TOMB / INCIDENT AT ORMONDVILLE

“Salaman’s Tomb”
There is a large mausoleum at the Te Henui cemetery in New Plymouth which houses just one man, Abraham Walley Mohammed Salaman, an Indian herbalist who now lies facing Mecca in the tomb he had built for himself.

“Incident At Ormondville”
A headstone in the Ormondville Cemetery, Hawkes Bay, reads: “ In Memory of Mary Ann Edwards age 33 years, Ronald age 7 years, Ella 5 years, Arthur John 3 years, Maud Emily 12 months, children of the above - murdered at Ormondville,10th of February 1884, by Roland Herbert”. After Edwards was hung, someone tried to remove the word ‘murdered’ from his wife’s grave, and controversy over his resting place continues to this day.