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

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.

The Township of Langley, B.C., comprising Langley, Fort Langley, Murrayville, Langley Prairie, Derby, Milner, Aldergrove, Otter, Salmon River Uplands, and Glen Valley, was incorporated in 1873. The City of Langley, B.C., covering the Langley Prairie region, was incorporated as a separate entity in 1955. Langley was named after Thomas Langley, a prominent stockholder in the management of the Hudson's Bay Company. He had inherited his brother's stock in the Company in 1793 and was selected as a member of the committee in 1807. He held this position until his death in 1829.