Douglas Cemetery interment options are burials, headstones and ashes.
In 1886 a letter sent to the Government requested ten acres be reserved beside the Gomoran (Douglas) School reserve. On 21 December 1886 a public cemetery was gazetted and given the Reserve Number 114 and Cemetery Number 177. Secretary for the cemetery trustees WE Wilcox sent a letter to the Department of Lands dated 10 February 1896 requesting for the cemetery grounds to be called Gomoran. This was granted on the 17 February 1896.
In a report by the Assistant and Ranger to the Toowoomba Land Commissioner in September 1953, it was noted that the reserve was reported to consist of ten acres and slopes from a hill on the eastern boundary. The soil was reported as being brown clayey loam and half the grounds had iron bark, sugar gum, gum top box and heavy wattle undergrowth. The part of the cemetery used for burials was heavy with Rhodes grass. The only noxious weed reported on the reserve was scattered pear heavily infected with cactoblastis. Within this report was a list of improvements, which consisted of fencing, a shed and iron gates.The entire ten acre boundary was fenced, as was the northern side (Lutheran section) and the southern side (Catholic section). It was believed that a parking area existed in between. The shed, which has since been removed, was in the Lutheran section of the grounds and the box toilet was in the parking area. You can still see the double gate entry with a prickly pear growing through it, where the public would have driven to access the parking area.
Douglas Cemetery, Douglas-Plainby Road, Douglas (Toowoomba - Qld) 4354 View Map
Douglas Cemetery, Douglas-Plainby Road , Douglas (Toowoomba - Qld) 4354
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