The Tumut Advocate 17 May 1910
OBITUARY MR. NATHANIEL REVILLE. As a fitting tribute to the memory of one of our old pioneers, who spent nearly 55 years in Tumut, and whose death we announced in our last, we give herewith a brief outline of Mr. Mr Nat Reville's life. He and his wife came to Tumut on August 10, 1855, from County Armagh, in Ireland, as an immigrant in the ship Glorianna. Mr. Reville, on arrival in Tumut, went straight to Mr. E. G. Brown, then owner of East Blowering, and remained in his service between two or three years in a generally useful capacity. Leaving that employ, he purchased a bullock team, and gave his time to carrying, he carried this on for some time and then went brickmaking with two old identities who have long passed away, viz : Mr. Charles Dean father of Messrs Stephen and Thomas Dean, of Tumut, and George Ellis. The site of their brickyard was on the terrace above Dr. Mason's Mill Dairy, at the back of the Railway Station. This was in about the year 1860. They were the principal brickmakers here in those days. The bricks in the R. C. Convent School and those in his residence in which he died being a portion of their manufacture. Mr. Reville, abandoning brickmaking, took to carting and wood and water hauling, and followed it for years. In the seventies he joined the Sons of Temperance, in which he filled the highest offices for years, and in later days he often expressed regret at leaving an order that was the means of letting a little sunshine into his life. The effects of a broken leg imperfectly set, caused him (at the time) months of suffering, and was a constant worry to him for the remainder of his life. For some time previous to his death, he still showed, however, his erst while activity in performing a little market gardening, and successfully growing cabbage and tobacco plants. He leaves behind one daughter (Mrs W. Clout, Tumut) to mourn her loss. A son and a daughter, as well as his wife, predeceased him. Dr. Mason had attended deceased since the Monday before his death. The funeral took place on Friday last. Mr. James Elphick was the undertaker, and Rev. W. D. Kennedy officiated at the grave. We tender the friends of the departed one our deepest condolence. |