Bonney's Flat Cemetery SA@MAMysteryTours
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Date: 2023-01-22

Bonney’s Flat Cemetery was established in the 1860’s as part of the Bonney’s Flat Primitive Methodist Church which served the district until 1931 when a larger property was built in Balhannah township. This was after the formation of the Australian Methodist Church in 1901.

The cemetery is managed and maintained by a team of people from the Balhannah Uniting Church and wider community to provide a useful and quiet place for people to place the remains of their families to rest.
Thomas and James, sons of John Camac. Worked on the building. Thomas was superintendent of the Sunday School for fifty-three years and James was a a teacher until his death in 1912.
The Bonney’s Flat church was in use until 1931 when a new Methodist church to seat one hundred and fourteen was built at the present Uniting Church site at Balhannah, on land given by William Johncock.
On 2 January 1955 the Adelaide Hills area was ravaged by bushfires. The old Bonney’s Flat church was a victim. ‘The Advertiser’ of 3 January 1955 gave the following account:

“With a temperature of 109 F (42.8 C) and a searing north wind, SA yesterday suffered its most damaging bushfires.

In the hills, the fires raged over an area of about 600 square miles of cultivated and bush land. Properties destroyed included Marble Hill, the Governor’s summer residence. His Excellency and Lady George and their family and personal staff barely escaped with their lives.

At least 40 houses in the hills districts and 10 at Rendelsham in the South-East were destroyed and hundreds of properties suffered damage.

There was one fatality.

Drizzle began to fall at 8.15 pm and 30 minutes later turned to a drumming downpour. Weary, soot stained firefighters cheered wildly and many lay down in the ashes which slowly turned to mud.”
Stone was recovered from the old church building in 1956 and used to build the entrance pillars for the cemetery.


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