How you can help preserve this Murphy Landmark
The Cemetery Association of Murphy, Inc. is a non-profit, 501 (C) 13 cemetery organization, that depends on membership dues, donations, grants and the volunteer work of the membership to maintain the Decatur-Maxwell-Murphy Cemetery.
There are several ways you can help with the preservation and restoration of this abandoned historic cemetery.
- Become a member. Lifetime dues are $100. Regular membership dues are $25 the first year and $10 each year thereafter. Since our membership is small, you can understand dues alone do not support the CAM's efforts. Click Here to join the Cemetery Association
The majority of our membership is over 60 years old. Even the oldest members come out and help with labor intensive projects - which there are many. We need your help. CAM actively seeks new members to carry on the preservation and restoration projects slated for the cemetery. We hope you will find this a worthwhile cause and join us in maintaining the Decatur-Maxwell-Murphy Cemetery. - Donations. We hope for donations from the community and family members of the buried - both monetary and projects completed.
Lowe's responded with their Community Heroes program and installed several sections of fencing, gate and raised flower beds at the entrance of the cemetery.
Private donations from members paid for the arched sign above the gate.Click Here to donate to the Cemetery Association
Classic Gardens & Landscape supplied labor and planting materials for the gravesite flowerbeds and the large flowerbed at the South side of the cemetery. Several Scout troops have made a project of repairing markers and picnic tables.
Whatever you can give financially or in the form of an enhancement for the cemetery, CAM will be most grateful. Any donation is 100% tax deductable. - Grants. Grants are very difficult for a cemetery association to receive, however we apply for several grants each year. Someday we hope to be lucky enough to receive one!
- Volunteers. At present two faithful members mow the cemetery and two other members try to keep up with weed eating around the markers. This is a never ending challenge. Wind storms come through the cemetery and dislodge twigs, limbs, etc. that have to be picked up. Weeds grow in the flower beds. Picnic tables fall apart. Markers need to be cleaned with a special solution. Markers need to be repaired to keep them from deteriorating further.
- There are many ways to help that only involve time and willingness.
