Meadows Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery SA@MAMysteryTours
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Date: 2023-01-29

Meadows Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery

Construction date: 1855 and after. Original Owner: Trustees in 1855, Messrs Hall, Vickery, Potter, C. & ].
Thorpe, Burgess, Morphett, Hardy, Chapman, Gadd and the Rev. John Harcourt.
Brief description and history: Although the land on which the cemetery is situated was conveyed to the Trustees
in 1855, the first burial would appear to be Richard Townshend of Green Hills, who was buried on 2 March
1866 (according to the Burials Register).
Methodist services at Meadows took place as early as 1843, a chapel in the centre of the cemetery being
erected in 1856. By 1868 the cemetery and chapel surrounds must have still been rather austere, for The
Flegister of 22 August 1868 records that 'Dr Schomburg of the Botanic Gardens has very kindly presented
the Curator of the Meadows Wesleyan cemetery with a selection of shrubs for planting amongst the graves.
These will be a great improvement upon its present barren appearance.'
Another church was built in 1877 on a site more central to the township, but the cemetery remains, with a
number of red gum headstones of great interest. Coarse saw marks are still visible on the grave markers of
Lang, Milligan and Lockyer, dating from the 1880s to the early 20th century. The lettering is deeply incised,
though crudely carried out and the markers are simply shaped. The markers which remain are only in fair condition, and threatened due to natural forces.
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