In 1868 a daughter was born to an Avoca storekeeper named James McKinnon and his wife Eliza nee Cock. They called her Annie Caroline.
Sadly she died of tuberculosis at a young age.
Avoca Mail, Friday 24 Jun 1887, Page 2
We announce, with regret, in our obituary column, the decease of Miss Annie С. McKinnon, at the early age of nineteen, from consumption, accelerated by congestion of the lungs. This young lady was the third daughter of Mr and Mrs J. McKinnon, of Upper Homebush. Her early death is the more to be regretted, for as well as being a dutiful and loving daughter, she was very clever at her studies, and was only prevented by her delicate health from going up to obtain the certificate of competency in the Education Department. She received the only certificate awarded to the Upper Homebush School by the Victorian Humane Society, and was also a successful exhibitor at the first Ballarat Juvenile Exhibition. The lamented young lady is to be interred in the Avoca Cemetery on Sunday next, and her mourning friends should remember that
Though life's valley be a vale of tears,
A brighter scene beyond that vale appears;
Whose glory, with a light that never fades,
Shoots between scattered rocks and opening shales."
Annie was buried at Avoca.
Wikitree: Annie Caroline McKinnon (1868-1887)
