Sources:

(1) I have note located definitively a death record in NAAIRS. Some possibilities are:

KAB MOOC 6/9/362 818 PIKE, JAMES. DEATH NOTICE. 1897 1897 (In fact it appears not to be the right person -- to judge by the next -- he was born in about 1842, so 17 years younger??)

DEPOT Genealogical Society of SA DESCRIPTION Pike, J - Gravestone. STARTING 0000 ENDING 18970322 REMARKS Old Grahamstown Cemetery, Grahamstown, Western Cape. SUMMARY +James Pike. Died 22-03-1897. Aged 55 years. (Son of William Pike and Sophia Usher - Source: P Holden). (??)