Research note:  

This grave does not have a headstone. Possibly there would initially have been a wooden cross that has not survived the elements. In the 1990s markers were added to unmarked graves recording such information as was available from curator’s records. These would have been transferred across the decades mostly in handwritten form.  The burial register for the cemetery has not survived.

There are known to be some errors in the names on these markers, mostly spelling errors, but there is reason to believe that the nameplate
identifying this grave as that of Vera Lyddon is incorrect. 

It was initially thought that this was the grave of Vera Beatrice Lyddon, who was born on 18 May 1900 to Thomas and Mary-Ann Lyddon (nee Crane) at Eden Valley.  Although no death registration for her exists, it was assumed she had died in infancy. However subsequently her marriage at age 25 to George Johnson at Angaston and move to Adelaide was discovered. Vera Beatrice Johnson died  on 27 April 1988 aged 87 years and is buried with her husband at Centennial Park Cemetery.

There are no other birth registrations for a Vera Lyddon any where in South Australia. There is only one death registration (in 2003) for a
Vera Lyddon (nee Hibben), being the wife of William James Lyddon, married in 1942  when Vera was aged 22.  

This grave is  likely that of Bessie May Lyddon (1902 – 1904)  who died at Springton aged 18 months and is interred adjacent to her great – grandmother, Harriet.