An accurate final resting place

(From L-R: Frank Norton, Michael Wanrooy and Stuart Brown)  Approximately four hours’ drive east of Mt. Isa lies the small town of Richmond in Queensland. On the western edge of town sits the Pioneer Cemetery, the final resting place for some 300 early Australian settlers according to Richmond Shire Council records. However these days only 35 or so headstones and grave markers are still standing and it is thought some of these may be placed inaccurately. Members of the community and the Council were eager to locate the remaining plots without disrupting the area with excavations. There was concern that many of the burial sites could lie outside the boundaries of the cemetery and perhaps under a carpark