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“THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN” MISSIONARY WORK IN CHINA
Amy Moore
15 August 1912, Mother gave birth to another baby boy whom they called Robert, but whom we more
often referred to as ‘Baby Boy’ for he only lived eleven days, and on 26 September was gone again.
To us children his coming and his going had hardly made a ripple on the surface of our lives, but I do
vaguely remember Father coming out of the house one day when I was playing on the footpath. He
was carrying a small casket which he placed gently on the floor of the trap and then got in himself and
drove away. Baby Boy was buried in the Kalgoorlie cemetery and only a number marks his grave.
For Mother that was a hard time and it was a very long time before the pain of losing that little one
eased a little.
Elizabeth (Beth) was born on 1 February 1914 and John (called Jack by the family) followed on 26
September 1915.
Dora, the last of the
family to be born on the
goldfields, was born on
14 June 1917.
With a growing family,
Mother found it hard to
keep up with the work
in the shop as well, and
when Father was
invited by Mr. Walker
Amy’s (that mysterious figure
first who seemed to come
Sunday in and out of our lives
at intervals in those
School at years) to become the
Brown Hill Manager of the Co-op
stores in Boulder City,
Amy and Jim (Left)
and with Mabel
(Mercer) Weir (Right)
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Amy Moore
15 August 1912, Mother gave birth to another baby boy whom they called Robert, but whom we more
often referred to as ‘Baby Boy’ for he only lived eleven days, and on 26 September was gone again.
To us children his coming and his going had hardly made a ripple on the surface of our lives, but I do
vaguely remember Father coming out of the house one day when I was playing on the footpath. He
was carrying a small casket which he placed gently on the floor of the trap and then got in himself and
drove away. Baby Boy was buried in the Kalgoorlie cemetery and only a number marks his grave.
For Mother that was a hard time and it was a very long time before the pain of losing that little one
eased a little.
Elizabeth (Beth) was born on 1 February 1914 and John (called Jack by the family) followed on 26
September 1915.
Dora, the last of the
family to be born on the
goldfields, was born on
14 June 1917.
With a growing family,
Mother found it hard to
keep up with the work
in the shop as well, and
when Father was
invited by Mr. Walker
Amy’s (that mysterious figure
first who seemed to come
Sunday in and out of our lives
at intervals in those
School at years) to become the
Brown Hill Manager of the Co-op
stores in Boulder City,
Amy and Jim (Left)
and with Mabel
(Mercer) Weir (Right)
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