Francina Geldenhuys

Francina Prinsloo

SHE WAS ON OX-WAGON
TREK
From Our Correspondent
Salisbury, Wednesday.

A woman who trekked from South Africa to Rhodesia with her parents on an ox-wagon in 1897 died in Salisbury today, at the age of 83.
She was Mrs. Francina Gelden-huys, of
259
Smuts
Road,
Prospect.
Mrs. Geldenhuys, who married in 1901 in Bulawayo, travelled by ox-wagon again two years later to Northern Rhodesia, where her husband, the late Mr.
Petrus
Geldenhuys,
Barend helped to
construct
construct the railway line link. ing Rhodesia with the North.