Background
Carl August Daniel Heese was born in on 24 February 1867 on the Amalienstein mission station near Ladismith in the then Cape Colony. In 1868 his father founded the Berlin Lutheran congregation in Riversdale, Cape Colony.
Carl August Daniel Heese was born in on 24 February 1867 on the Amalienstein mission station near Ladismith in the then Cape Colony. In 1868 his father founded the Berlin Lutheran congregation in Riversdale, Cape Colony.
In 1880 Daniel Heese went on a visitation visit to Germany and took his boys Hans and Daniel with him. Daniel remained behind where he completed his school career and underwent training as a missionary in Berlin.
He was killed during the Second Boer War, his death was one of the issues at the court martial of Breaker Morant. Overview of On completion of his theological studies, reverend C.A.D. (Daniel) Heese went to the Northern Transvaal where he was ordained as a missionary of the Berlin Missionary Society. The couple was stationed at Makaanspoort near Pietersburg in the Northern Transvaal.
Their first child, Martha, born 1894, died of diphtheria.
The only son, also called Daniel, was born on 11 December 1901 - a few months after his death. Mr. Craig was admitted on Tuesday 20 August 1901.
At the Swiss Mission Hospital Rev Heese spoke to Boer Prisoners of War, some of whom he knew – Mr. Vahmeyer (a teacher at Potgietersrust).
They stated that they were afraid that they would be shot.
Later when Review Heese was leaving he saw that the Boer Prisoners of War had been shot. He told Captain Taylor that he would report this to a British Officer at Pietersburg.
Review Heese and the young African boy, Silas, proceeded by horse-buggy with a white flag attached.
He never made it to his daughter’s first birthday. He was thirty-four years old when he and Silas had been shot.