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The Stirling District
Cemetery was opened as the Stirling East
Cemetery in 1879. Before that burials had been made on private property, in the scrub and later in churchyards.
The first person to be buried in the
Cemetery was Mrs Henry Fullgrabe. Indeed she was interred before the
cemetery was properly laid out and only on the understanding that if the roads and footpaths happened to cross her grave, she would be exhumed at Mr Fullgrabe’s expense.
The most important person buried in this
cemetery is George Woodroofe Goyder who was Surveyor General of South Australia from 1861 to 1894. He was responsible for exploring and surveying at a time of great rural expansion. He surveyed the site of
Darwin (N.T.) in 1869. Living at 'Warrakilla' at Mylor, he promoted the township of Mylor ( established 1892) and the development of this
cemetery. Mourners at his funeral included Hon.Thomas Playford I, Charles Dumas (scholar and founder of the Mt Barker Courier), Robert Barr Smith, David Murray, Frank Stone and Eusebius
Wilson.
The
Adelaide Observer wrote, 'The remaining passages of the burial service were recited by the Rev. P.C.W. Wise of Crafers, the mourners took their final glance into the tomb and all was over.
Before the shadows of even had begun to fall, the cold earth 'hid the buried friend' . But not from the memory, for his name endureth in his own immortal works.'