Murray Cemetery in Saint Marys, Ohio

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Coordinates: 40.53701, -84.38177
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This is the first civilian cemetery in the area, established after the Treaty of St. Marys in 1817-1818 by Charlie Murray, one of the first white Indian traders, who acquired his trading post a short distance south of this point from James Girty after the Treaty of Greenville. Murray purchased his trade goods in Detroit, transporting them by pack horses. In 1823, he helped lay out the town of St. Marys, and traveled to Greenville to record it. Prior to being known as "Girty's Town", St. Marys was "Kettle Town", an old Indian village.

Murray died in 1827 and is buried here. The reverse side of this monument lists all of the known burials in this cemetery as compiled by Ed Meckstroth in the 1950s.

The cemetery was renovated by Memorial High School's F.F.A. Class. This monument was donated by St. Marys Marble and Granite and was placed in the K.C. Geiger Park in southeast St. Marys by the Auglaize County Historical Society. It was dedicated on Sunday, July 24, 1977.

[from "A History of Auglaize County, Ohio" - published in 1979 by the Auglaize County Historical Society - pgs. 49, 51]