Gympie Cemetery is the cemetery for Gympie, Queensland,

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. The cemetery is located on Corella Road and is managed by the Gympie Cemetery Trust.

History

It was first unofficially located on the corner of Alfred and King Street, currently the site of the ambulance station next to the

Gympie Hospital Gympie ( ) is a city and a locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Wide Bay-Burnett District, Gympie is about north of the state capital, Brisbane. The city lies on the Mary River, which floods Gympie occasionally. ...

. Following approximately 50 burials at this site, the Tozer Park Road Cemetery was opened on 1 December 1869. The first burial register was started at that time. The flood-prone town of Gympie was subjected to diseases such as diphtheria, and the Tozer Park Cemetery bore the blame. It was found that the ground was too low and hard digging, resulting in shallow burials that caused distressing odours. Tozer Park Cemetery was closed in 1886. The cemetery was relocated to its current location on Corella Road at Two Mile, and an area of 60 acres was granted. Families were granted new plots in lieu of plots already purchased in the old cemetery. They were also able to exhume loved ones and move their

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s to place in the Two Mile Cemetery and family graves were established. However many headstones remained until the 1980s. The first person to discover gold in the Gympie area, James Nash is buried in the cemetery. In 1911, a memorial to the leader of the Irish revolutionary movement, John Flood, was established in recognition of his work towards Irish nationality. The cemetery contains 12 war graves of Commonwealth service personnel, 4 of World War I and 8 of World War II.
CWGC Cemetery Report.

Gympie Family History Society

The Gympie Family History Society moved the remaining headstones to the new cemetery with the help of the

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. These headstones are grouped together in the pioneer section. The Gympie Family History Society coordinates regular cemetery walks with up to 60 people attending. These walks are known as Cemetery Crawls. Participants learn more about the pioneering families that created the town.

References

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External links

Gympie Cemetery Trust
1869 establishments in Australia Gympie Cemeteries in Queensland

History

Gympie Family History Society

See also

References

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