"On their quest to find some near the Jukskei River, one of the brothers -Cornelius Floris Johann Meyer perished in a snow storm from exposure in 1851 aged 10. (another version is that he was kicked by a horse in Prins Albert) After that Jan's mother Hester Christina Elizabeth Mulder brought some Acacia Karoo with from Prince Albert to plant back home especially for firewood." . . . .