THE founding editor of the Bendigo Advertiser, Robert Ross Haverfield, has been remembered on the 122nd anniversary of his death.His great-great-grandson Graeme Sproul and his son Tom visited Bendigo yesterday, stopping at the grave of the man described as one of Bendigo’s founding fathers.Mr Sproul said he had followed family history on his mother’s side of the family and decided to take a road trip through Bendigo and Echuca to find out more about Mr Haverfield.“It was only after we planned the trip and said we’d be in Bendigo yesterday that we decided to look up his grave and found out it was the anniversary of his death,” he said.“It was really quite spacey.”Mr Sproul and Tom also stopped in Echuca where Mr Haverfield is also recognised as a founding father – he was a councillor and founder of the Riverine Herald.“He was definitely one of the good blokes,” he said.Tom, 19, has also become interested in the life of his ancestor.“He was one of the first to believe in the exponent of deep gold mining,” he said.“They never used to believe that there was gold under 50 metres and he was negative of that opinion“Within 50 years of him first saying that, they were digging 150 metres deep.”“That made Bendigo one of the richest places in the world for a time,” Mr Sproul said.Mr Haverfield died at his Quarry Hill home at age 70 on April 20, 1889.