The Corryong Cemetery Trust is run by the Towong Shire Council and has been since 1994 when the Shire's of Upper Murray and Tallangatta amalgamated. Prior to that Shire of Upper Murray Council took over as Cemetery Trust in 1978. The first burial in the Corryong Cemetery was in July 1889 and that of a child of nine years old. The site had been chosen but not yet declared by the Public Health Department at the time of the child’s interment, however it is believed the father did not want to have his son buried at the Millers Hill Cemetery and took matters into his own hands. He dug the gravesite, east to west so that the coffin would face the rising sun. Others followed and this is why there is a line of graves running diagonally across the Church of England Portion of the Memorial Section of the Cemetery. A more up to date register is available on the Towong Shire Council website.