Helena Catharina Eckard / Vaughan

NG Kerk, Vrede, Orange Free State - Marriage Register Entry : 129 of 16 June 1920 At the time of her marriage, Helena was aged 26 years and a spinster from Vrede. Her husband, Abraham Pieter de Villiers Eckard was aged 24 years, a bachelor who worked for the Police Services and came from ' Boshoff ' Boshoff District. They were married after banns at the NG Kerk, Vrede on 16 June 1920 by Presiding Minister, Ds H.J. Reyneke in the presence of the following witnesses : Johan Coenraad Terblanche / Pieter Pringle - {NG Kerk, Vrede, Orange Free State - Baptismal Register Entry : 97 of 27 August 1893 - Helena Catharina Bresler - Birth : 8 July 1893 - Baptised : 27 August 1893 - Parents : Johannes Augustus Bresler / Elizabeth Petronella Christina de Jager - Presiding Minister : Ds Johan Hendrik Enslin - Baptismal Witnesses : Helgard Jacobus Steyn / Helena Catharina de Jager - Matthys Johannes Bresler / Maria Aletta Schutte } - ( Anglo Boer War History : Prisoner No : 115 892 - Arrived at the Harrismith Concentration Camp on 2 August 1901, Aged 7 years old. Transfered to the Standerton Concentration Camp on 7 September 1901 and returned to the farm ' Bavaria' on being released. ) - Orange Free State, Civil Deaths, Bloemfontein - Entry for August 1956 - Helena Catharina Vaughan / Eckard ( nee Bresler ) passed away on 21 August 1956 at her residence at Voortrekker Street, Paul Roux. She was aged 63 years and 1 1/2 months, a widow and was last married in Boksburg, Transvaal. Left no assets or a will. Death Notice signed at Paul Roux on 15 September 1956 by A.P. de Villiers Eckard - Son of the Deceased who was at the place of Death http://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/Person/149138/Miss_Helena_Cather...