God's Acre cemetery at Archerfield Airport Claimed

God\'s Acre is situated at the main entrance to Archerfield Aerodrome. The site was dedicated as a cemetery when Volney Grenier, aged 16, was killed in a fall from his horse during a fox hunt on 26 October 1859. His grieving parents, Thomas and Mary Ann Grenier, buried him at this site and set aside a small area of 3/4 acre from their property as a family cemetery.

The last burial in the cemetery was for Miss Olive Grenier who was buried on 16 July 1980.

The cemetery is now maintained by the Federal Airports Corporation (Archerfield Airport Corporation) and God\'s Acre Restoration Committee, formed in 1990. A \Day of Remembrance\" is held at the cemetery on the last Sunday in June every year. There were approximately 600 people at the first \""Day of Remembrance\"" on 30 June 1991. This followed 14 months of restoration work by the Restoration Committee.

This was a joint project of:

The God\'s Acre Restoration Committee
Lions Club of Acacia Ridge - Algester
Rotary Club of Acacia Ridge

NOTE:- The information on this page is mostly from a booklet called \""God\'s Acre - Grenier Cemetery, 1859 - 1980\"" which was written and researched by Effie Johnson and Lona