BRAUER, Henry August

Name – BRAUER, Henry August
Born – 18/05/1892
Died – 5/10/1937
Location – No 16 Methodist Section
Mother – Anna Malvine Heuer
Father – Wilheim Frederich Brauer

Notes – Henry Brauer was born on the 18th of May, 1892 in Queensland to Anna Malvine (nee Heuer) and Wilheim Frederich Brauer. His siblings were Frederick William (1890), Minnie Elizabeth (1895), Annie Sarah (1896), Wilhelm Frank (1899), Catherine May (1900), Ruth Mabel (1903), Lilly Jane (1904), Elsie Violet (1907), Edward Charles (1909) and Leslie (1916).

In 1912, Henry is listed on the Logan Morton Roll as residing at Yellow Wood, Yatala as a farmer. Dalby Electoral Rolls show Henry living with his brother Frederick and his wife, Susan Emily at Wieambilla via Tara from 1921 till his death in 1937. His occupation is listed as a grazier.

One day while climbing over a fence on his way to shoot at some crows that had been troubling some of his lambs, Henry stumbled and accidently shot himself. His nephew McLaughlan, who had been working with his uncle for many months, heard a gunshot, and ran to where his uncle was lying on ground. McLaughlan rushed his uncle to hospital immediately, but Henry was pronounced dead on arrival.

Henry was buried in the Tara Cemetery but his grave has no headstone to mark his final resting place.

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