Adopt an Outback Cemetery

What a great idea Geoff.
Maybe contact the South Australian 4wd Association and they can assist with spreading the word through the SA 4wd clubs.

Look here for SA 4wd Association web site and contact info.

If the project is to big for the SA guys to deal with then I'm sure a few of the other state associations would also be interested in supporting the project.

Thanks John,
I have just emailed them.

Geoff, have just enjoyed taking a gander at your website. Many thanks for both your (and my) early memories of a great area.

Geoff, that sounds like a great project.
Those sorts of projects generally make a trip a lot more interesting for those involved, and also creates quite a bit of goodwill in the region.

I have been photographing and logging on GPS all the old cemeteries and lonely graves around our area and burning the info onto CD and giving it to the local Family History Group.

There are many lonely graves out on some of these properties, and when you go out camping, sometimes you come across them.
Some of the people around the area still have some stories about those graves, so I try and get that history too while there is still some knowledge about the event that lead to the death.

I think it's important to preserve as much of our history as we can.
I always take a digital voice recorder with me when I go out in these areas because of the great stories you here sometimes.

Dave

I think this is an Oz wide problem. There are graves dotted throughout the Gippsland bush. Some people still know about them. Some are exposed when bushfires go through...

I'd love to see them looked after as well.

Good on you for your efforts.

As I travel about, I often stop for a cuppa beside a small cemetery and take a walk. Even in these 'kept' cemeteries, there is way too little information.

My family were pioneers near here and I've always thought that an explanatory board of some sort should be erected. My 'Nanna' was the youngest of 12 born in the bush, and I'm about to sprinkle Mum and Dad around where she and the rest of my family are... the 'hill' Saviges...

Cheers Royce

Geoff
I already sort of adopted one , done some painting and weeding back in 2006. then made a webpage for it.

Elsie Grace Campbell

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Brilliant idea! The Outback History just fascinates me, and I love reading tombstones in normal cemeterys, but the history in old graves, you just can't really describe the feeling of wondering about that person, their life, why they died when they did etc...