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Roderick Cumming took up a homestead in Langley in 1888, with his wife Flora Matheson, and began slaughtering hogs and cattle to supply meat to district logging camps and then opened the Cumming’s Meat Market at Murrayville’s Five Corners.

Rod Cumming and his son Daniel Cumming owned and operated the meat market together and photos show them working a meat stall at the New Westminster Market, known as the “City Market”, from 1898-1906. Daniel took over the meat market in 1953 when Roderick passed away at the age of 90.

Flora Cummings (nee Matheson) was born in 1863, the daughter of Donald Matheson. She married Roderick Cummings in 1886. She was the mother of Dan Cummings. Flora died in 1938.
Term Source: The Langley Story, pg. 251 (Waite)

Paul Murray was born in Ireland in 1811 and immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of eighteen. the Murray family settled in Oxford County, Ontario, and ten years later Paul married Lucy Bruce. They bought land in Zorra and had seven children together. In May 1874, after his children were grown, Paul left Ontario and relocated in B.C., accompanied by three of his sons. Their first home in Langley was a roughly built shelter they made for themselves from a gigantic fir tree, and after his wife and two of hisdaughters arrived, they all lived there together. After these humble beginnings, Murray opened a hotel on Old Yale Road to service travelers making their way into the interior, building up a reputation as one of the finest carpenters in the area. The corner where the hotel was eventually came to be known as Murray's Corners, as the family had 160 acres of land on each corner. Murray's Corners eventually came to be known as Murrayville, and all of Paul's sons worked on Old Yale Road, building more hotels and other businesses to increase commerce. Paul was an ordained church elder, dring a time when there were no official churches and services were held in a small schoolhouse on the corner of Glover Road and Old Yale Road. Holding the title of founder of Murrayville, Paul Murray died in 1903. Murray's Corners did not officially become Murrayville until 1911, when the local post office changed its name to Murrayville Post Office.