Outback Graves Markers

Langlo Crossing Historical Cemetery

This is a photo of the Langlo Crossing Cemetery site before restoration work was undertaken

Photo of Langlo Crossing Cemetery before restoration

This is an aerial photo of the Langlo Crossing Historic Cemetery

Langlo Crossing Historic Cemetery aerial photo

This is a photo of the Langlo Historical Cemetery with plaques in place

Langlo Crossing Historical Cemetery

This is a photo of the volunteer Nancy with a cemetery memorial plaque

Volunteer Nancy with cemetery memorial plaque

See people buried at Langlo Crossing Historical Cemetery

Location Information

Region: Queensland
Coordinates: -28.133333, 145.666667
Directions: Located in the Murweh Shire, Western Queensland, 65 kms from Charleville on the Charleville-Adavale Road

Cemetery

Number of Graves: 17
First Burial: 2 July 1883 John Gilbert aged 18 years, assistant blacksmith at Milo Station, who died on the Cobb and Co. coach four miles west of Langlo Crossing. He was buried in an unknown site near the old Hotel. A memorial has been placed in the Cemetery..
Last Burial: 14 November 1918 Margaret Jane Powis formerly Coleman nee Walker, who came to Langlo with her first husband and their family in 1885 when he took up the victualler's licence of the first Hotel. Hers is the only headstone in the cemetery.

 

Age at death

 0 – 1 year 

3

     20 – 29 years 

1

     60 – 69 years

1

 2 – 5 years

0

     30 – 39 years

0

     70 – 79 years

3

 6 – 9 years

0

     40 – 49 years

4

     80 + years

 0

 10 – 19 years

3

     50 – 59 years

2

     Unknown

 0

 

Occupations

Assistant blacksmith

1

      Jack of all trades

1

      Seaman and cook

1

                

 

Compositor

1

      Labourer

4

      Shepherd

1

  

 

Cook

1

      Rabbiter

1

 

 

  

 

 

Cause of death

Asthma

1

    Heat apoplexy

1

    Syphilis

1

  

 

Drowning (accidental)

1

    Heart failure

3

    Stillborn

1

 

 

Drowning (suicide)

1

    Inflammation of lungs

1

    Supposed peritonitis

1

 

 

Erysipelas

1

    Old age

2

 

 

  

 

Exposure

1

    Peritonitis/Gastroenteritis/

    Convulsions

1

 

 

                

  

 Erysipelas: an infection of the skin and lymphatics which can lead to sepsis.

 

 Early History

The Langlo Crossing Hotel was originally an accommodation house owned by William Martin (1883) and the first licensed victualler's licence for a hotel was applied for by James Wheeler in August 1883.

The place was a Cobb and Co waystation and the little town grew with the support of the surrounding district and their needs.

At its peak the town supported two hotels, a store, a post office, a school, police station, race track, community hall, telephone exchange and a Chinese market garden.

The arrival of road and rail saw the reliance on horses and horse drawn transport diminish and so the town slowly decreased in population and services were closed or withdrawn.

This is a photo of old Langlo Crossing

              Photo of Old Langlo Crossing

 

This is a photo of a coach at Langlo Crossing

                                Cobb and Co. Coach at Langlo Crossing 

Interesting Information

The site was originally known as Kahmoo Mulga - kahmoo thought to be a mis-spelling of the Gunggari word Amu (pronounced Ah-moo) meaning water.

Some of the graves are lost - three were buried at the original Langlo Hotel and it is not certain that the suicide was buried in the Cemetery.  However memorials for these people were placed in the Cemetery.  the memorial for the man who committed suicide has been placed at a discreet distance apart from other memorials.

References

Government documents
History shared by families
Queensland State Library
Queensland State Archives
Internet searches for Kahmoo and Langlo