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ORE CITY CEMETERY
Originally named Murray League Cemetery

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Thanks go to the Upshur County Historical Commission, Carla Potter  and Loyce Williford for the use of their reading for this cemetery.  This reading  was completed in June of 1998. 

Thanks to Patricia Couch Grimes for updating Ore City Cemetery for us in October of 2005.
Some pictures taken by Etta Withers & Elaine Martin August 2007.
Thanks to Earlene Gunnells for submitting her Ore City Cemetery photos for our use.

Ore City was first called Murray League. It was settled by a group from Haywood County, Tennesse, around 1853. They started the Murray League Institute (school) and built a church. The Ore City Cemetery is on land where the school and church were located. The first marked grave was Maude Ferguson who died in 1857. Some of the original settlers buried in the cemetery are: William & Jane Clark, Charles C. & Mary Coppedge, and James H. & Martha Armstrong. Sadly, many headstones have been lost to time, leaving many unmarked graves.

The historical marker that stands beside the cemetery reads as follows:

Murray Institute
A Community called Murray League, for the original land grantee, first school in Upshur County (1853-1861) founded by Tennesseans Rev. Joshua Clark and William L. Coppedge. County educational boarding school, famous for excellence. Taught engineering, higher mathematics, Greek, Latin, along with common subjects. Was closed during the Civil War.  1964

As hard as we all try, we are human and sometimes when reading a cemetery we miss a grave covered with leaves, fireants, or bushes. Sometimes the headstone has sunk and is mostly underground. Our area also has many graves only marked with iron ore rocks and even many unmarked graves. There are headstones that have long ago been destroyed by the elements or even vandalizm, and are hard to impossible to read
the details. We would appreciate it if you would let us know if you did not find your relative which was buried here, and would appreciate your letting us use the information you know about them. With the combined efforts of us all, we can make the Upshur County website bigger and better.
 
Thanks to Patricia Couch Grimes for updating Ore City Cemetery for us in October of 2005.

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