Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1919 — "Doctor Jim’s" Burial Place. [ARTICLE]
"Doctor Jim’s" Burial Place.
The body of Sir Starr Jameson, better known as “Doctor Jim,” of raid 1 fame, rests beside that of his beloved i leader and friend, Cecil Rhodes, amid! the solitudes of the lofty, lonely Matop- j pos, in Matabeleland. The remains < were removed from England for that ] purpose. The lead shell in which “Doctor Jim’s” body was incased was quietly removed from Kensal Green cemetery antj shipped to Africa. Thence the remains were conveyed to Bulawayo and onward through some of the most charming scenery In Rhodesia to that famous lonely hill in the 5,000 feet high Matoppos, called by Doctor Jim’s friend, Cecil Rhodes, “The View of the World.”
