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Benjamin M. Muench was born in 1871. He married Elizabeth Elanor Reid on April 4, 1900 in New Westminster. The couple had three sons: Wilfred (Winky), Edward, and Bernard (Dutch). Elizabeth died in about 1918. Benjamin died on November 6, 1945. He was buried in the Fort Langley Cemetery.

Bernard Henry (Dutch) Muench was born April 28, 1902 to Benjamin and Elizabeth Muench. He was a grandson of Edward Muench, who homesteaded in West Langley in the mid-1860s. He married Florence Armishaw (1902-1950). The couple had at two children, Bernard Muench and Shirley Yeomans. After Florence passed away, Bernard remarried Dresda Thomocine Hepsley (nee Hamilton). He died August 19, 1966.

Wilfred John (Winky) Muench was born Dec. 3, 1899. On February 16th, 1924, he married Emma Elizabeth Trattle, the widow of Alfred Trattle. The couple had seven children: Heather, Viola, Joy, Ben, Larrie, Jack, and Claud. Wilfred was stepfather to Emma's two boys from her previous marriage, Alfred and William Trattle. Wilfred grazed his cattle on the west end of the Fort Langley sawmill site, and he and Mr. Back rented Lot 49 (probably owned by the CNR). Wilfred died January 4, 1963.