This image was taken at Terrace End Cemetery.
This mausoleum was constructed to house the mortal remains of the Wilson family. The first body laid to rest in the mausoleum was that of 23 year-old David Scott who died in 1904. Scott was the son of Katherine Wilson by her first marriage. In 1912 Katherine's husband George died at the age of 48 and his coffin was also placed in the mausoleum.
George Wilson was a Glaswegian by birth, who qualified as a doctor of medicine and was a surgeon after study at Edinburgh, Berlin and Prague. He practised in Palmerston North from 1892. One of his claims to fame locally was the fact that he owned the first motorcar in the town. In 1902 he purchased an Oldsmobile with tiller steering.
For some years before her death in 1935, Katherine Wilson used to spend time each day sitting in this mausoleum and is even known to have taken her Christmas dinner up to the cemetery to eat in the building! We can but surmise that she was pleased to be reunited with her loved ones when her remains were finally placed in the mausoleum.
