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James Augustine Brydon was born in 1903 or 1904. He married Georgina Harriet Smith. James died on 22 November 1978, at Murrayville.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-371/1296)

Scotsman Alexander Cameron arrived in Langley in 1887. He rented the old Murray home at Five Corners, Murrayville. His wife, Harriet (nee Roberts), three daughters and three sons arrived from East Williams, Ontario, in 1889. Alexander became the postmaster of the first Post Office in the area, which he named Lochiel after his ancestral home in Scotland. Cameron built the Lochiel School on land donated by Thomas Biggar. He died on November 29, 1933 at the age of 89.

Relative (daughter?) of Alexander Cameron and his wife, Harriett.

John Ross Davidson was born in 1904 to Hugh Davidson and Margaret Jane McKee. He married in 1935. John died on February 2, 1982.

Robert McRoberts McKee was born in Ireland in 1845. In 1870 he married Esther McCleery and they had one son. Sometime later the family, including Robert's brother, James McKie [McKee, 1841-1919], immigrated to Canada from Belfast, Ireland. At this time, Esther was pregnant with their second child, and shortly after their arrival, a duaghter was born in Vancouver (Margaret Jane). The family moved to Langley, and three more children were born there: Esther (1874), Robert (1876), and James (1877). Each of the brothers farmed 160 acres on the Nicomekl River River just southeast of the Fort farm, and Robert McKee was one of the 29 petitioners who requested the incorporation of the Langley and Derby district into a municipality on March 23, 1872. Esther died in 1883, and Robert McKee remarried Augusta McCarthy in 1887. He was the Reeve of the Township of Langley in 1888. Robert died on February 9, 1926, and was buried in the Fort Langley Cemetery.
Term Source: Fort Langley Cemetery, pg 37 (Hannay)

Annie Medd was born in 1891 in Sperling. She was educated in Fort Langley Grammar School and Langley High School.
Annie was an avid farmer and in her 70s, she returned to UBC to become a Master Beekeeper. She was awarded a Life Membership to the BC Honey Producers Association in 1970 (https://bchoneyproducers.ca/about-us/life-members-of-bchpa/).
In 1972, Annie presented $1,000 to the Langley Memorial Hospital Foundation which was an accumulated sum from prize monies from agricultural fairs awarded for needlework, cooking, butter, honey, flower and vegetable exhibits.
Annie was married three times. She was first married to George Miller in Washington State and was divorced in 1926. She returned to Sperling to live with her three minor children: Andrew, George and Harriet. She then married Albert Armstrong. Albert Armstrong died after suffering a brain injury from falling off a wagon. Annie later married 49 -year-old bachelor Ralph Medd in 1931/32 and moved to the old farmhouse on Medd Road in Milner. Annie passed away in 1974.

Source: Langley Hospital Foundation Donation Records

Thomas Prior Mufford, his wife, and their children arrived in Langley, B.C., in 1885 from the goldfields of California, their original destination when they left Cornwall, England, in 1873. They settled on the north end of the Hudson's Bay Company Farm in Fort Langley. Thomas Prior Mufford's brother and his wife, Joseph and Ann (nee Francis) Mufford, ended up settling in Langley, too.

Thomas Prior Mufford, born in Cornwall, England in 1838. He married Millicent Udy in England and had 2 children before coming to Ontario in 1874. The Thomas Mufford family settled in Langley in 1885, and had 9 children total. Thomas died in 1907.

James P. Smith was born April 1, 1840. He married Mary Smith (nee McQuicken, b. 1856). They had at least three children: Alexander (b.1882), James N.(b.1888), Katie L. (b. 1893) and Grace McDonald (nee Smith) who married William McDonald Sr.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-270/1066)

Magnus Smith was born in April 19, 1876. He married Bessie (Elizabeth) Cameron on June 20, 1900. The couple lived in Milner, along Crush Crescent in the "Oakes House." Their children included Lloyd Magnus, Gladys, Velma and Georgina. He passed away on December 23, 1931.