Mary Ann Phillips

OLD COLONIST"S DIE Remembered Eureka Fight MELBOURNE, Today. Two old people who died during the past three or four days carried to the grave vivid memories of the stirring days of the early Victorian goldfields. Mrs. Mary Ann Humphries, 99 years I age, of Ballarat, was an eyewitness of the Eureka Stockade fight there on December 3, 1854. Her sunbonnet was perforated by a bullet while she was looking over the top of a large water barrel behind which she had sheltered. Mrs. Mary Annn Phillips, 83 years of age, who was buried at the Eastern Cemetery, Geelong, yesterday, was also present at the goldfields during the Eureka riots. She came to Victoria 78 years ago, and has left 59 living descendants.

Adelaide News, 12 June 1928.