Salter: Grave at Myroodah Station

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Myroodah Station
Myroodah / Luluigui Road, Derby 6728, Western Australia
Email: Myroodah@bigpond.com

In 2013 The station was owned by the Indigenous Land Corporation
Phone (08) 9191 4735


The station has a small Cemetery with a few graves on it. Curly, a shearer, died crossing the Fitzroy River and was brought on to the next station for Burial. 
Curly was married to Mary, who lived in Perth, and they had a five year old daughter when he died. Mary later married Herbert Bridgett.

Salter, Henry  "Curly" John (26)                            died 27th Mar 1920 / 320 

In 2015 I organised to visit the station and view the grave. The station managers were very generous with their time. The small cemetery was in a paddock not far from the main house. A couple of posts indicated the cemetery. There were three grave markers in the Cemetery. The stone ones had been serverely weathered by the elements and were unreadable but Curly's was tin with his name punched into it.

Entrance from the road to the station along the airstrip

The small graveyard with the station buildings in the background

Photos taken by Lisa Lionnet-Swaan 28 June 2015
Since I visited in 2015 the graveyard has been cleaned up and it is no longer overgrown. Trevor and Suzie Tough founded the Outback Graves Society.

See the article "Lonely Graves of the Outback: Retirees install 100 plaques at grave sites across the Kimberleys by Leah McLennan and Vanessa Mills which was posted online on 14 Sep 2016.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-14/retirees-plan-mark-outback-graves-kimberley/7838784 Below is a photo from the article showing Curly's grave. 




Location: Myroodah-Luluigui Rd, Camballin WA 6728, Australia

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