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Unlike many cemeteries in Brisbane, Mount Gravatt is still open with new burial sites available. The cemetery offers lawn and lawn beam memorials and traditional headstones. [2] Ashes can be placed in niches, or buried or scattered in gardens. [1]
The burial ground is of particular importance. It is very early, pre-dating the establishment of general cemeteries such South Brisbane Cemetery at Dutton Park, Toowong Cemetery, Balmoral Cemetery, Hemmant Cemetery, Bald Hills Cemetery and Lutwyche Cemetery in the 1870s.
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In the 2006 census, Hemmant had a population of 2,680. [26]In the 2011 census, Hemmant recorded a population of 2,594 people, 50.4% female and 49.6% male. [27] The median age of the Hemmant population was 34 years of age, 3 years below the Australian median. 74.9% of people living in Hemmant were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%; the next most common countries of ...
The grave, once in disrepair, was restored in 2006 by admirers. Franz von Suppé: 1895 Composer Wiener Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria Joan Sutherland: 2010 Opera singer Clarens-Montreux Cemetery, Montreux, Switzerland Beside her grave is the future final resting place of her widower, conductor Richard Bonynge. Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: 1621 ...
James Gillespie (1747–1805), Revolutionary War soldier, Representative – North Carolina, reinterred at Congressional Cemetery 1893 at R60/S58. Cenotaph at R31/S59. Francis Jacob Harper (1800–1837), Representative Pennsylvania, died before taking office. Reinterred at Congressional Cemetery 1848. R55/S101.
The cemetery was established in 1852 and opened on 1 June 1853, and the Old Melbourne Cemetery (on the site of what is now the Queen Victoria Market) was closed the next year. The grounds feature several heritage buildings, many in bluestone, including a couple of chapels and a number of cast iron pavilions.
The cemetery changed its name to Evergreen Washelli in 1962. The Evergreen Washelli cemetery was started as an "endowment care" cemetery, therefore a portion of the cost of a grave is designated into a trust fund for maintenance of the grounds. This allows for a cemetery to remain as a perpetual landmark.