Burra Bee Dee Cemetery
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Burra Bee Dee Cemetery

Coonabarabran, Warrumbungle Shire, New South Wales, Australia

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    Coonabarabran, Warrumbungle Shire, New South Wales 2357 Australia
    Coordinates: -31.23176, 149.35124
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Burra Bee Dee is an aboriginal cemetery which once served the Burra Bee Dee Reserve, gazetted in 1912. Though the community has been abandoned, the cemetery is still actively used by aboriginal community, most of whom live in Coonabarabran.



The oldest headstones in the cemetery are of local sandstone. In the late 1800's one of the residents, Sam Smith, used to cut stone from a sandstone outcrop on a nearby hill and carry it down to the settlement where he carved and inscribed the headstones by hand.

Burra Bee Dee is an aboriginal cemetery which once served the Burra Bee Dee Reserve, gazetted in 1912. Though the community has been abandoned, the cemetery is still actively used by aboriginal community, most of whom live in Coonabarabran.



The oldest headstones in the cemetery are of local sandstone. In the late 1800's one of the residents, Sam Smith, used to cut stone from a sandstone outcrop on a nearby hill and carry it down to the settlement where he carved and inscribed the headstones by hand.

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  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2449219