V. kind & charitable especially to Africans.

Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - Lilly Haller, British, age ?, died 29/10/63

SKP - 1938 - Society of Kenya Pioneers - over 30 years in Colony - arrived 1906 Limuru - Mrs S. Haller

Glimpses - Lily Block Haller - unpublished memoirs - "It was with a very heavy heart that I started on my return journey (from Nairobi) pondering how little value our 500 acres of land had, when we could not buy enough to eat. As I tramped along the footpath leading away from the town, I was startled to hear someone calling me by name. Turning around, I saw a little man in khaki riding a bicycle and calling me to stop …. I recognized him as a poor Jewish tinsmith who lived and worked in one room near the Indian's store. Mr Harrtz, for that was his name, lived in this room with his wife and although they were so poor, they always  had a couch and a meal for any stranger who was passing through. They were the kindest people imaginable and when he offered to lend me 30 rupees, saying he did not like to see me carrying an empty basket home, tears of gratitude came to my eyes. (c. 1948, p. 18)

Glimpses - Haller, Lily Block Memoirs - "My brother, Abraham, had left Russia some years before me and he was now farming in British East Africa. His description of the country, its beautiful climate and peaceable inhabitants, combined with the wonderful opportunities he said it offered, made my imagination whirl ……….. Eventually my father agreed to take me to East Africa to see for myself and he sold the business and house in Johannesburg …….. So in 1906 we set sail on the last stage of our journey to Kenya. I felt that at last we were going to a really new country, a country completely undeveloped and primitive and where my people could at last find a safe place to live.

Glimpses - After a few months with Abraham and his partner Rosenblum on his farm in Kiambu, to get the hang of things, Lily and her father bought their own farm, 560 acres of virgin land in Kiambu, Lily taking her friend Rosenblum's sister Bertha, for company. With them settled, Abraham went back to Russia in 1908 to fetch his mother, Ettel, and his youngest sister, 12 year old Freda.

Gazette 28 Apr 1964 probate