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Daniel Cummings was born on 18 July, 1889 to Roderick Cummings and Flora Matheson. He married Rizpah Selby-Hele on 25 March, 1914. Daniel died on 27 November, 1989.
Term Source: The Langley Story, pg. 251 (Waite), Cemetery Report - Murrayville Burials pg. 14 (Township of Langl

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)

Born in Hunter's River, PEI, in 1863, Roderick Cummings arrived in Vancouver, BC in 1886. He married Flora Matheson on November 11, 1886, in New Westminster. They took up homesteading in Langley in 1888. He subsequently began slaughtering hogs and cattle to supply district logging camps and opened a butcher shop at Murrayville's Five Corners, on the west side of what is now 216th Street, north of Sharon United Church and the Old Yale Road. Rod had an artesian well on his property at the Five Corners, directly east of the Sharon Church. After the construction of Belmont (later Murrayville Elementary) School was built up the hill to the east in 1911, Cummings entered into a 99 year lease to provide water to the school, and the municipal hall across the road. This agreement resulted in the community’s first multi-user water system. The pressure needed to pump the water up the hill (now 48th Avenue) from the source was supplied by a hydraulic ram pump. This provided sufficient water service until demand started to increase following the First World War. An electric pump was installed in 1928, and the pumphouse structure (still standing) was built to shelter it. Flora and Rod had one son, Daniel Cummings who took over the meat market from them. Rod passed away at the age of 90 in 1953.
Source: The Langley Story, pg. 251 (Waite)

Born in Lochiel, Scotland, in 1843. One of four Church of Scotland ministers sent to B.C. in 1875, and first to take up permanent residence. In 1882 he traveled to Ontario and married Miss Annie Karn, and upon returning to Fort Langley the next year, built a house (no longer standing) at 8052 Glover Road. Dunn left the area in 1886, but wrote his memoirs, entitled, entitled "Experiences in Langley."

Father of Flora Cummings (nee Matheson).
Term Source: The Langley Story, pg. 251 (Waite).

Elizabeth Maxwell (nee Carman) was born in the Gatineau area of Quebec on February 13, 1852. John Maxwell met her in Wakefield, Ontario, and convinced her to marry him and come to B.C. The two married in July of 1874, and lived in Ontario for a while before moving to property John had pre-empted on the old Hudson's Bay Co. farm. Elizabeth's mother and brother came to Langley and also took up land. John was the reeve in Langley from 1878-1879, 1884-1889, and 1890-1891. By 1894, John and Elizabeth had 10 children. Elizabeth died on July 9, 1906, and is buried in the Fort Langley Cemetery.

John Maxwell was born on January 6, 1836 (38?) in Ireland. When he was 10, his family left Ireland and came to Canada, where they settled along the Gatineau River in Quebec. He worked on logs jams there until the family moved to B.C. when John was 20 years old. It was shortly after this (in about 1862) that John Maxwell and his cousin James Reid caught the gold rush fever and headed to the Cariboo. Maxwell became sick, and Reid went with him on a journey to a hospital in New Westminster. Along the way, the pair almost starved to death, and even had to resort to eating their dogs. Following this adventure, John headed back east for a number of years, returning to B.C. in about 1870-71 to pre-empt 400 acres southeast of Fort Langley, B.C. He was one of the original petitioners to have Langley incorporated as a municipality in 1872, and was one of its first councillors. Heading back to Ontario again, Maxwell married Elizabeth Carmen in July 1874; they lived in Ontario for a time. The family returned to Langley, and John quickly re-involved himself in community affairs. He was the reeve in Langley from 1878-1879, 1884-1889, and 1890-1891. By 1894, John and Elizabeth had 10 children. A story recorded in "The Langley Story Illustrated" by Donald E. Waite states that James Murray Johnston and Maxwell got into a fight about taxed on their land at a council meeting. Getting angry, Maxwell offered to switch properties with the man, and Johnston, out of anger, agreed. The two switched properties, but the deal ended poorly for them both. John Maxwell died March 11, 1915 in Milner at the age of 79, and is buried in the Fort Langley Cemetery.