Friends of Hastings Cemetery
Goodsell Brothers, Rowland and William p.2
AV H15
In affectionate remembrance of
Rowland Hartnup
3rd son of William and Matilda Goodsell
who was accidentally drowned while bathing
on the 3rd of July 1877
aged 16 years
also
William Thomas Goodsell
brother of the above
aged 33 years
who was also drowned whilst bathing
June 30th 1889
leaving a widow and son to mourn their loss
Ellen Adams
Wife of the above
Died March _ 1915
aged 57 years
In the midst of life we are in death
He was the eldest son of Mr. William Goodsell, landlord of the Plough Inn, Westfield. Deceased was a member of the Executive Committee of the Hastings Liberal Association, as a representative of the Ore District.”
William's widow Ellen, whose name appears on the gravestone, remained in Ore. In the 1891 Census she is recorded as a laundress, and her son is a carpenter (aged fourteen). In November 1901 Ellen married William Herbert Adams, a Hastings man, but on the gravestone she is described as the wife of William Goodsell.