St John's Anglican

The first burial in the St John Church of England Cemetery was that of Charlotte Bushell.

Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Saturday 13 June 1863, page 1

MOUNT PLEASANT.

[From our own Correspondent.]

Mount Pleasant, June 10,

A considerable amount of gloom has been spread over an extensive circle in this neighbourhood by the decease of an old and respected resident—Mrs. Bushell—the wife of one of the first persons who settled in this district some three or four and twenty years ago. She had stood in the relation of foster-mother to two successive generations, and died on Friday last when on a visit at her daughter's house, where she had gone, with entire self-forgetfulness, for the purpose of nursing a sick grandchild. Her relations and friends to the number of nearly 80 assembled on occasion of the funeral, which took place yesterday at St. John's Church, in the cemetery connected with which her remains found their last resting-place. This burial-ground has been opened for the purpose of removing the disadvantages of distance and position which were found to render the Government cemetery inconvenient; and it was made use of on this occasion for the first time.