It is the resting place of 130 residents of the area north-east of Horsham and Pamela Baker - one of the volunteers who looks after it - says the cemetery is an important resource for the area and descendents of those buried there.

Mrs Baker is secretary of the Jerro Cemetery Trust, and has been a member for 40 years.

"The main thing we have to do is mow the grass and keep the fences up-to-date and the trees safe for the public," she said.

"We've lost members mainly through death or moving out of the area. The four members on the trust now are life members, so they will always be there - but hopefully the number will expand soon.

"Mostly the people who come here have connections to the town - they like to come back and maybe have their burial here. Most of the people buried here have no family left in Jung, so they come back to visit from all around."

Mrs Baker said the cemetery averaged one burial a year, with many of the headstones concentrated at the western edge of the small plot, overlooked by three ghostly dead trees. Producers of the film The Dressmaker chose Jerro cemetery as a filming location by virtue of the trees in 2014.

"Before that, I was talking with tree-loppers about having them removed because I was afraid they might damage the tombstones - but they're staying now," Mrs Baker said.

An hour's drive west, volunteer numbers are also an issue for Noradjuha Cemetery Trust.

Secretary Jennifer Noonan, who has been in the role for 30 years, said the aging community could not run the site indefinitely.

Mrs Noonan said she contacted Horsham Rural City councillor David Grimble about the council potentially taking over management.

"We recognise that running a cemetery, you're meant to manage it as a business and have to make money to provide maintenance. That is getting beyond our capacity," she said.

"There are quite onerous governance requirements for Class B cemeteries. We have the same (requirements) as Horsham cemetery when we might only have one burial a year.

"We probably need to see another class for cemeteries as small as ours and some increased support for existing infrastructure.

"We set our own fees but we only take a percentage of those fees for maintenance and ongoing needs. The money we take from people buying plots is not used for running costs - it must be held in reserve because people may seek to have their plots redeemed.

"The only money we get are from costs added on to grave digging services."

Mrs Noonan said while work for the six volunteers was hard, they continued to do it out of the care they felt for the local community.

"When you live in a small community for a number of years, you start to care about this history attached to cemeteries, and when people request information searches over their genealogy, you care that they're interested and can help them out," she said.

Horsham council, at its latest meeting on Monday, resolved to submit a motion to the Municipal Association of Victoria, calling on the body to advocate for the state government to review the ongoing management and operations of such sites.

There are 12 cemeteries within the Horsham municipality - with 11 of these located in very small towns or communities.

The council's corporate services director Graeme Harrison said the council managed only one of these cemeteries - at Blackheath - with the others being managed by trusts made up of volunteers.

Mayor Mark Radford and councillors David Grimble and John Robinson spoke in favor of the motion.

Cr Grimble said the struggles faced at Noradjuha were "fairly consistent" with cemeteries across the state.

"We see a lack of volunteers and the requirement of them to run either the local hall or the CFA as well," he said.

Cr Robinson said he was worried cemeteries would begin to "sit idle" as the communities they represented grew older.

"There are still partners (of people buried at the cemetery) that are alive, but in a few more years most of those will be gone and it will be hard work for those that remain," he said.

Cr Radford paid tribute to the volunteers working to preserve the cemeteries.

"They tell the story of the families who have lived here," he said.

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