We are now gearing up for a reunion of Garretts after successfully locating the John Garrett grave at Allanton - not that it was lost - but the gravestone had been mostly destroyed by the ravages of time and the fact that the old cemetery had been closed for many years before being opened again by the Dunedin City Council, in response to demands for space on the Taieri Plains.
Rob assisted me and all we could find were the remnants of a marker with a few letters left.
Soon there will be a fine monument to take its place - and we will have had a fine excuse for a party to celebrate our ancestor and his brave wife, Fanny [frances Lovell].
