ATHENS COUNTY OHIO - Murray City, Ohio Cemetery ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sandra Quinn DSABQUINN@worldnet.att.net December 26, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This cemetery is the Murray City Cemetery located on the county line between Hocking and Athens county in a village called Murray City. SandySandra Quinn~volunteer lookup person for Athens County on Ohio Gen Web, Member of First Families of Athens County, Ohio, Member of Athens County Genealogical Society ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Murray City, Ohio Cemetery Transcribed by Sandra Mitchell-Quinn and Marlene Robinson-Mitchell Copyright September 6, 1998 According to the village council, of which my parents Larry and Marlene Robinson Mitchell were members, there are no known records of whom is buried in the Murray City Cemetery. While walking the cemetery it became obvious to me that there are many graves which have become sunken over the years and there are many graves missing tombstones. You can visibally see that the tombstones once stood on many lots, but are now gone. The ground is spongy and covered in a thick peat moss. Name Birth date Death date Inscripiton StoneCondition Effie Avis none listed none listed "In memory of Effie Avis Very Good Leslie Moore none listed none listed and Leslie Moore" Margaret L. Byers 6-10-1832 8-10-1904 "Margaret L. Byers Good wife of Benjamin Byers" Robert Pearson Co. K 47th OH INF Poor Emma J. Pearson 10-8-1844 3-6-1899 Wife of Robert Pearson Good Minne B. Wife of John McLaughlin Poor Edna Archer SSW 1874 1963 Good Joseph Archer 1874 1942 Ellen Mura 10-3-1902 Aged 5 mo. 9 days Good Jesse Phillips 7-6-1902 11-9-1903 son of James Phillips Good James Turner Co. A 195th OH INF Good Ittnyugszik SSW Poor Nagy Domokosne Bo`kepo`rain Gyarmatirebeka 1887 1918 Wm. M. Price 4-18-1871 11-4-1901 PRICE Good Gale Earnest Price Son of W. M. & Bertha E. Fair Nichols Nichols Very Poor Glenn Palmer 1910 1912 Fair Tommy ? 2-2-1895 12-3-1901 Tommy Very Poor Thomas Orval 9-26-1905 son of T. and F. McAfferty Good age 1m 26 days Tom on footstone Ralph Canter 9-21-1906 Son of J. and Chloe Canter Very Poor Ruth E. McGarva 1895 1900 A little bud of love Good Power - Bryan Power - Bryan Good John M. Stephenson 1881 1930 Good Frank Stephenson SSW Fair Tobetha Stephenson 1849 1924 Viona Nutter 9-4-1899 9-6-1904 dau of B. F. and Grace Nutter Very Poor David Ellis 8-22-1894 8-10-1901 son of T. & L. Ellis Very Poor Freda S. Stephenson 7-31-1899 11-29-1901 dau of Nora Stephenson Good Louis Lonberger 7-9-1883 4-12-1905 Poor Lena Lonberger 8-17-1901 wife of Joseph Lonberger Poor Katie Brooks dau of P. & E. A. Brooks Fair General Millard May SRF? Very Poor Fanny McCafferty 3-12-1906 19 years 1m 15days Fair Wife of Thomas McCafferty Willie Leasure son of S. & L. Leasure Good Ethel Sabo 8-23-1905 age 31 days Fair dau of Paul and Mary Sabo Roberts Roberta, and Margaret Fair Maude Fisher SSW 1-9-1897 5-24-1899 dau of Phillip and Lizzie Fair Vintie Fisher 12-14-1894 5-17-1888 son of Phillip and Lizzie William W. Wray 12-29-1906 2-14-1907 Fair Betty Charbo SSW 1872 1959 Mother Betty Good Andy Charbo 1865 1915 Father Andy Children Elizabeth, Mary, Betty David Brown SSW 3-6-1844 8-8-1910 Good Mary J. Brown 9-19-1850 ----------- ITT ????????? 1911 January ten LTZREVETMH ? Very Poor BEKEHAVAIRA J. A. S. Footstone is all that is left Davie Evans 4-11-1904 5-4-1904 Gone but not forgotten Good Thomas Smith C. C 143rd IND INF Fair Burel Smith 1907 1910 Our darling Fair Sarah E. Smith 12-30-1875 3-30-1899 Poor Willey Watkins Co. E ??? Very Poor James Elgin 1-16-1894 Age 1 year 5 months Good Ruth M. Bridge SSW 1925 1928 Vilas Bridge Jr. 1927 1928 Poor CLEGG CLEGG Good Ashford C. Jones 5-14-1902 son of J. S. and Sarah Jones Good CLEGG - ZARLEY CLEGG - ZARLEY Very Good Lucetta Clegg 12-19-1813 1-22-1905 Good Samuel Clegg 2-29-1802 3-16-1875 Good David Zarley 4-5-1813 2-2-1841 footstone D. Z. Good David Jones 1808 1846 drowned at Nelsonville 12-23 VG plaque Elisha Watkins SSW 2-23-1876 69years 4 months Very Good Margaret 12-22-1884 71years 10m 6 days, wife of Elisha Gilbert Shaffer 3-6-1904 5-5-1904 At rest Very Good Plaque George Watkins Co. E. 75th OH INF Fair ANGLE Mary Angle SSW 1848 1888 Good Dora Angle 1873 1887 Emily Ann Davis 1877 1908 Very good Isaac Hawkins SSW 11-26-1862 9-6-1913 Good Amanda Hawkins 4-6-1868 19-- LaFOLLETT SSW Father and Mother Very good James LaFollett 5-10-1855 16y 9m 26d Mary LaFollett 10-29-1887 Aged 71y 17d Good James LaFollett 10-19-1887 Poor Cook family plot surrounded by fence, no readable tombstones. Also known by the author to be buried in the cemetery but no stone found- William Mitchell 1852 1914 Olive Anne Davis Mitchell 1857 1914 wife of William Note by the transcriptionist- August, 1998 Sandra K. Mitchell-Quinn I chose to do this project because my ancestor's William and Olive Annie (Davis) Mitchell are buried in the Murray City Cemetery and I lived in Murray for many years while I was growing up. Many of their descendants are still living in Murray City including my parents and grandparents. My husband's ancestor Margaret L. Byers, wife of Benjamin Byers the Civil War Soldier Some of the graves have slipped down over the hill. Most of the tombstones there were difficult to read and with my mother's assistance (Marlene Robinson-Mitchell), we made crayon rubbings to read them. The cemetery sits on a hill above the Murray City town park. According to the tombstones found which were readable, the earliest burial occurred in 1841, long before Murray City had become a coal mine village town. The first person buried was David Zarley. The last person buried was Betty Charbo in 1959. The local Legend has it that the cemetery is directly over a coal mine shaft and that about 50 years ago some local boys were exploring the shafts and much to their surprise came upon the skeletons and tombstones of the buried which had fallen into the abandoned mine shaft. No effort was made to retrieve them or to move the cemetery, but the cemetery was officially closed to new burials at that time. Sandra K. Mitchell Quinn 1107 Wilbur Road Medina, Ohio 44256 330-239-3116 DSABQUINN@worldnet.att.net