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Term Source: Sears List of Subject Headings (16th. Ed.)

Located at 23105 St. Andrew's Street, this historic cemetery was created in 1884. This was the first municipal cemetery established in Fort Langley, and is the resting place of many of the area's pioneer families. The first burial was Robert Mackie, father of the municipality's first Warden. Separate sections of the cemetery were reserved for First Nations people and for Canadian War Veterans. Many of the granite and marble monuments are elaborately carved and decorated, and several gravesites are surrounded by wrought iron fences. In conjunction with an early landscape plan now in full maturity, it remains a site of peace and beauty. To the north side of the cemetery is a granite First World War memorial to the fallen men of the Langley district which was later rededicated to the memory of those who served in the Second World War.
Information from "Langley's Heritage: A Listing of Heritage Resources"

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The cemetery was established by the Independent order of Odd Fellows (Cloverdale Lodge No. 15) in August 1891, and they operated it for the next 13 years. They wrote to the Township Council in mid-1904, offering to sell them the property. The transfer took place in October that year, and was renamed the "Langley Prairie Cemetery" in November. (Murrayville was originally part of Langley Prairie). Eventually it came to be known as the Murrayville Cemetery.
From "Frail Memorials: The Cemeteries of Langley" by Warren Sommer.