Cancelled | Grave Matters – Unearthing Stories from the Past in Benalla Cemetery
This event has been cancelled by the organiser
Starting at 1.00pm on Sunday 4 May, guides from Benalla’s Cemetery Trust who have researched the stories of many of the cemetery’s occupants will escort you from grave to interesting grave. As they move among the gravestones, they will relate the stories that they have discovered. Benalla cemetery has stories aplenty. For example, a brutal killer lies in Benalla’s cemetery. He murdered his best mate. Another murdered his workmate – by accident!? The cemetery also contains the remains of a man who used his influence to keep his sons safe during the Great War and yet bullied others to enlist. What an ironic outcome there was to that story! Another woman widowed in her first year of marriage because of a horrible accident ran a quarantine hospital during the Influenza Epidemic. Then there was the man whom 5,787 locals voted Benalla’s ugliest man in 1926.
Some of the ground in the cemetery is uneven and is unsuitable for wheelchairs and for people who are unsteady on their feet.
Photograph by John Barry