i love this old graveyard. Surrounded by ghost gum trees it sits atop a steep hill overlooking the Pine River. It’s only small but holds many of the early pioneers who founded the Pine Rivers Shire I live in. It’s a great place to photograph.
Born in Edinburgh 31st January 1831 died 26th August 1910, Thomas Petrie was an Australian explorer, grazier and friend of Aboriginals. His family travelled to Sydney, arriving in October 1831 moving to Moreton Bay in 1837 where Thomas was educated by a convict clerk and allowed to mix freely with Aboriginal children. He learnt to speak the local language, Turrbal and was encouraged to share in all Aboriginal activities. At 14 he participated in a walkabout to a feast in the Bunya Mountains. He married Elizabeth Campbell in 1859, bought a ten square mile (26 km²) property in the Pine Rivers district and named it Murrumba, an aboriginal word meaning “good place”. Aboriginals helped him to clear his land and build his farm buildings. He continued to look for new timber and places suitable for European settlement, became the first white man to climb Buderim Mountain in 1862 and surveyed a route from Cleveland to Eight Mile Plains.
Released from sorrow sin and pain. And freed from every care. By angels’ hands to heaven conveyed. To rest for ever there.
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