The first burials recorded in Mather Cemetery were in 1904. The Municipal Council paid for the land in 1905. On November 21, 1905 the Roblin Council passed an order to pay Wm. Gordon for four acres of NW-5-2-13(-W1). The clerk was George Way, the Reeve was D. B. McKinnon. This land was to be Mather Cemetery.

Orange Howard was the first groundskeeper. Others were Wes Howard, Ab Fulford, Frank Baudic Sr., Jack Lloyd, and the (then) present groundskeeper, Earl Howard.

It is a lesson in Mather history itself to walk through the cemetery and see the names of our early pioneers, and the names of our present families, recorded there.

(Source: Crocus Country - A History of Mather & Surrounding Districts, p 21 [Adapted])

Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD15-05-02-13-W1

In the Rural Municipality of Cartwright-Roblin

As noted above, a part of the town's story and those of its inhabitants from the early days of European settlement through roughly 1981 is told in the volume "Crocus Country - A History of Mather & Surrounding Districts", especially starting on page 21. A free digital version of this and many other Manitoba local history books can be found online in the University of Manitoba Digital Collections. There is also a list of such books organized by district and town name on the Manitoba Historical Society's website on their page entitled "Finding Aid: Manitoba Local History Books".

A list of burials in this cemetery is available from the Manitoba Genealogical Society (reference #0075), transcribed by a member or members in 1985. Also available to MGS members is a searchable online database named the "MGS Manitoba Name Index" (or MANI). Some additional information is contained in the 1996 MGS publication "Carved in Stone: Manitoba Cemeteries and Burial Sites" (revised edition, Special Projects Publication, 106 pages).