Welcome to the site.  I am delighted that you have decided to visit and I hope that you find what you are looking for.

This website is a hobby, and I guess a fairly unusual one.  Cemetries are not a usual place to be drawn to, but they are full of interesting history, stories waiting to be told, snapshots into the lives not only of those that have passed, but those who were mourning them.  

My interest started with the West Terrace Cemetery, located adjacent to the Adelaide CBD.  I had been working Fly in, fly out in Darwin when my father passed away suddenly, so suddenly I was unable to return home in time.  After this event I decided that I needed to move back to Adelaide.  I was lucky to find a new job and this role was located within walking distance of the West Terace Cemetery.  

I initially avoided the cemetery, but was eventually drawn to it, as somewhere quiet when I might need a moment.  Soon I started to go there and read the various memorials, and found comfort in the words written on them.  Soon I was regularly walking to the cemetery, intrigued by these messages of love, of loss, of pain.  I found one of particular note.  A message on a childs memorial, it read 'God Knew Best'.  This devotion and faith I found both beautiful and confounding.  How could the parents who lost a child write this?  I found it difficult to think this, and I had loss my father.  

From this particularly striking epitaph, I then started to take photos, with the concept of a book.  I had found a book on the Cemetry, but there were very few books on Epitaphs.  

And rather than a book I started to put information in a spreadsheet, then into a wiki page, and now a website database.

And so I started my new hobby.