Glen Willis Cemetery - VIC

Between 1894 and 1920 this cemetery served the mining areas of Sunnyside and Glen Willis records illustrate the hardships experienced during these years isolation severe weather conditions in winter primitive housing and no doctors of the 97 persons buried 40 were infant sometimes twins sometimes our mother had died and soon after her baby in recent years a firm of Bridge builders were constructing a new bridge over the Mitta Mitta river at Glen Valley The mother of the Bridge builders was visiting her sons and was amazed that there were no crosses in the cemetery before leaving the area they built a large cross on a square slap and promised they would come back in direct crosses to commemorate the grave sites they did in the summer of 1991 from the roadside the most significant thing alerting you to the location of the cemetery is these white crosses?