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Significant Burials of Ipswich General Cemetery (Transcription)
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Ashely: There's quite quite a few historical characters in Ipswich General Cemetery.
We've recently been involved with the crypt remediation project for the Fleming family.
Joseph Fleming was was a member of Queensland's first Parliament, but apart from that he was also a very noted businessman at the time an old significant works down on the Bremer River at Bundanba, as it was called then, and he had about 640 acres there and he had a boiling down work, sawmill, and the flour mill.
He employed a couple hundred people, which was certainly the big thing at the time for him.
He's in there with his wife Phoebe and his daughter Caroline.
Moffatt and Bell families have another vault in the cemetery and they've got about eleven people in that vault, I think.
He was a colonial treasurer of Queensland.
An interesting anecdote to that is he died at age 38 and all of the males in his family died around that time 40 - 38 earlier.
They had obviously some sort of heart defect that was passed on generationally, very sad.
There's the Cribb & Foote families, you know, they are located there.
The Bertie Piper statue, which is quite a famous one locally. A young boy died and the statue was heavily vandalized over the years and bits of it were in the sexton's hut and some pieces were with the family on the Gold Coast.
Eventually it was it was repaired and put back up. There were donations from people to make that happen. It cost about ten thousand dollars to do that.
What's of interest is that Batstones, the stone masonry company that repaired it, was actually the company that made it 100 years ago. It was great to see that connection there between the stone masonry of the time and current time.
The statue is well up there now and worth having a look at.