history
SALE CEMETERY
The Sale Cemetery is located about three kilometers from Sale on the left-hand side of the Sale-Maffra Road travelling away from Sale. Initially, burials in Flooding Creek, as Sale was then known, were carried out wherever it was convenient. Typically, pastoralists buried family and workers on station grounds. But by 1857, the present Sale Cemetery was in use. It was designed in the form of a clover leaf with sweeping carriage ways dividing the consecrated ground of the main religious denominations. The cemetery was gazetted and fenced in 1857, William Williams being appointed as keeper and Patrick Mawley as sexton (c.f. ''Gippsland's Lucky City: A History of Sale'' by Peter Synan). The first recorded burial as per the cemetery register cards is that of 22 year old Frederick Scmith(sic.) who died in 1850. This surname may properly be either 'Smith' or 'Schmidt', but unfortunatley, no record of death for a 22 year old Frederick of either surname can be found on the Victorian Pioneer Index.