Cemetery information:- The Old Cemetery (or the Alexandra (Alexander) Park Cemetery) was the second cemetery in Potchefstroom and was in use since 1861. It was officially closed in 1905.The old cemetery is also home to many graves of victims who died in concentration camps and soldiers that were killed in action during the Anglo-Boer War. According to a survey conducted by the Potchefstroom Museum, there is a total of 281 graves, excluding those who died in the Wasgoedspruit Concentration Camp and those of British troops who died in and around Potchefstroom during the Anglo-Boer War. This is the last resting place of President M.W. Pretorius who died while being under house arrest in Potchefstroom in 1901. JP Borrius, a renowned editor and one of the only two printers in the old Transvaal at that time, is also buried here. After many years of decay, the Old Cemetery fell into a state of disrepair. In the late 1960’s the headstones that were still in a fairly good condition, were grouped together, and so the Old Cemetery were transformed into the Alexandra Park Garden of Remembrance. It is based near the entrance of the Potch Dorp Rugby club in Piet Bosman Street. (Source: Potchefstroom Herald 2015)
Album incomplete, we do not have photographs of all the headstones.
Photographs by Hetta Scholtz
eGGSA captions by Alta Griffiths, Anelda van Rooyen, Alaine Kent & Annatjie Erasmus.
Information also available on the GGSA Cemetery DVD:- Cemetery ID: 1789 Names in cemetery: 532 Information submitted by: Peter and Beverley Moss Google Earth Project Information:- GPSID: 2062 GPS: -26 42.760, 27 05.248
