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Stock Photo: 11 Lonely Graves Image ID CFG7416
Picture: The original headboard at the site of the 'Lonely Graves' at Horseshoe Bend on the Clutha River near Miller's Flat, Otago, New Zealand. According to a local legend, in 1865 William Rigney found the drowned body of an unidentified young man and when the body went unclaimed he buried it with a wooden headboard marked 'Somebody's Darling Lies Buried Here'. While appealing, the story is not entirely true. Rigney did not find or bury the body, which was that of Charles Alms, a Nevis Valley butcher, but he did erect the headboard. On his death in 1912 Rigney was buried next to Alms and his headstone reads 'William Rigney, the man who buried Somebody's Darling'.
This image is part of a sequence or collection, please visit Horseshoe Bend Bridge to see it in context.
For more photos of this subject please see photo category Horseshoe Bend Bridge
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