CONSULTATION will occur with the family of a politician buried in an underground crypt after concerns about its future.
An “extremely rare tomb containing Joseph Fleming and his wife, Phoebe, was located at the Ipswich General Cemetery.
The Ipswich City Council planned to engage a university’s archaeological faculty and had secured the voluntary services of a stonemason to excavate and document the Fleming crypt.
But descendants of Mr Fleming, one of Queensland’s first politicians, have conflicting opinions about the site’s future.
His great-great niece, Narelle Radunt, acknowledged the prominent excavation of the crypt could lead to desecration of the area.
But she agreed the community would be interested in the crypt’s contents and …
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