AG Visser and his wife, Lettie

A great drought in 1877 forced the parents of AG Visser to leave their family farm in Carnarvon, and seek alternative grazing for their animals. They trekked to the farm Zaaifontein in the Fraserburg district. Because there were too many young people in the homestead, AG Visser was born in a tent, prepared especially for that purpose, under a pear tree. His epitaph, inscribed on an open marble book, is a quotation from a poem dedicated to his late wife, Lettie: Goddank vir jou. 
(God be thanked for you)

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