OLD MONUMENT FOUND NEAR CITY RECENTLY
Tombstone of Forty-Niners Grave Uncoveed on Nunn Ranch. Bearing the name of George Murray of Andrew County, Missouri, a stone was uncovered by workmen at the old Ted Pollard place, now known as the William Nunn ranch, five miles south of Douglas and two miles off the old Oregon Trail, while repairing an irrigation ditch during the past week. The stone was discovered in a clump of willows near the ditch and the inscription announced the date of Mr. Murray's death as June 19, 1850. It had evidently been scratched with a pocket-knife on the sand rock. Murray's age was given as thirty-seven. It was quite probably that Murray was a member of a party which followed the rush of '49 with its destination the California gold fields. Photographs of the stone were taken by Mr. Nunn and it is probably that a more suitable marking of the grave will be erected through the efforts of the Douglas Community Club.
----Douglas Enterprise, May 3, 1921
Tombstone of Forty-Niners Grave Uncoveed on Nunn Ranch. Bearing the name of George Murray of Andrew County, Missouri, a stone was uncovered by workmen at the old Ted Pollard place, now known as the William Nunn ranch, five miles south of Douglas and two miles off the old Oregon Trail, while repairing an irrigation ditch during the past week. The stone was discovered in a clump of willows near the ditch and the inscription announced the date of Mr. Murray's death as June 19, 1850. It had evidently been scratched with a pocket-knife on the sand rock. Murray's age was given as thirty-seven. It was quite probably that Murray was a member of a party which followed the rush of '49 with its destination the California gold fields. Photographs of the stone were taken by Mr. Nunn and it is probably that a more suitable marking of the grave will be erected through the efforts of the Douglas Community Club.
----Douglas Enterprise, May 3, 1921
OLD MONUMENT FOUND NEAR CITY RECENTLY
Tombstone of Forty-Niners Grave Uncoveed on Nunn Ranch. Bearing the name of George Murray of Andrew County, Missouri, a stone was uncovered by workmen at the old Ted Pollard place, now known as the William Nunn ranch, five miles south of Douglas and two miles off the old Oregon Trail, while repairing an irrigation ditch during the past week. The stone was discovered in a clump of willows near the ditch and the inscription announced the date of Mr. Murray's death as June 19, 1850. It had evidently been scratched with a pocket-knife on the sand rock. Murray's age was given as thirty-seven. It was quite probably that Murray was a member of a party which followed the rush of '49 with its destination the California gold fields. Photographs of the stone were taken by Mr. Nunn and it is probably that a more suitable marking of the grave will be erected through the efforts of the Douglas Community Club.
----Douglas Enterprise, May 3, 1921
Tombstone of Forty-Niners Grave Uncoveed on Nunn Ranch. Bearing the name of George Murray of Andrew County, Missouri, a stone was uncovered by workmen at the old Ted Pollard place, now known as the William Nunn ranch, five miles south of Douglas and two miles off the old Oregon Trail, while repairing an irrigation ditch during the past week. The stone was discovered in a clump of willows near the ditch and the inscription announced the date of Mr. Murray's death as June 19, 1850. It had evidently been scratched with a pocket-knife on the sand rock. Murray's age was given as thirty-seven. It was quite probably that Murray was a member of a party which followed the rush of '49 with its destination the California gold fields. Photographs of the stone were taken by Mr. Nunn and it is probably that a more suitable marking of the grave will be erected through the efforts of the Douglas Community Club.
----Douglas Enterprise, May 3, 1921
Gravesite Details
Section 4, Township 30N, Range 71W
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