Horatio Spencer Howe Wills (Horace Wills) was an Australian pastoralist and politician. In 1861, Horatio moved north to Queensland, at Cullin-La-Ringo in the Nogoa region near
Rockhampton. Just three weeks later, Horatio was murdered by aborigines, along with 18 others at the Cullin-La-Ringo massacre in 1861.His son, Thomas Wills was credited as one of the inventors of Australian rules football (he is the umpire in the statue outside the MCG). Another grave that is near here is for William and Isabella Robertson who died in 1914 some 53yrs later.Note that this is not the grave of William John Wills from the Burke & Wills Expedition (their
graves are in
Melbourne).This is the site of the massacre of 19 people by a local Aboriginal tribe on 17 October 1861The people killed were in a party led by Horatio Wills and were resting in the early afternoon when the tribe moved into
camp and killed the ten men, two women and seven children.