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Murray Cemetery

K.C. Geiger Park ~ St. Marys, Ohio

The Memorial High School F.F.A. renovated Murray Cemetery. A marker set by the Auglaize County Historical Society at the time of the renovation reads as follows: MURRAY CEMETERY FIRST CIVILIAN CEMETERY IN THE AREA. EST. AFTER TREATY OF ST. MARYS IN 1817 BY CHARLES MURRAY, ONE OF THE FIRST INDIAN TRADERS, WHO ACQUIRED HIS TRADING POST SOUTH OF HERE AFTER THE TREATY OF GREENVILLE FROM JAMES GIRTY. MURRAY PURCHASED TRADE GOODS IN DETROIT, TRANSPORTING THEM BY PACK HORSE. IN 1823 HE HELPED LAY OUT THE TOWN OF ST. MARYS, TRAVELED TO GREENVILLE AND RECORDED IT. PRIOR TO BEING KNOWN AS GIRTY'S TOWN IT WAS KETTLETOWN, AN OLD INDIAN VILLAGE.

NAME - DATE - AGE CHARLES MURRAY - 1827 - (?) DAVID ARMSTRONG - 1833 - 33 ELEANOR (WIFE) - 1852 - 50 JOHN H. (SON) - 1852 - 23 ARTEMESE (DAU.) - 1835 - 2 THOMAS SCOTT - 1826 - 19 CHARLOTTE SCOTT - 1849 - 29 ASA HINKLE - 1831 - 53 MARY (WIFE) - 1861 - 80 HENRY HINKLE - 1874 - 72 ELIZA (DAU.) - 1851 - 2 CHARLES SMITH - 1831 - 29

NAME - DATE - AGE ASA SMITH - 1851 - 29 CAROLINE (WIFE) - 1857 - 29 ELIZA APPLEGATE - 1850 - 30 JOSHIAH HEPNER - (?) - 20 CHARLES WATKINS - 1843 - 40 CHARLES WATKINS - 1843 - 8 MO. ROBERT WATKINS - 1852 - 9 MO. LYDIA HAY - 1841 - 16 JOHN PICKEREL - 1839 - 33 JAMES BOTKIN - 1849 - 38 GIDEON MOTT - (?) - (?)

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