Greenwich Ohio Area Historical Society

  Just found this one of my grandfather, J.H. Murray, with one of the 17 teams of horses and wagons that he and his brother-in-law, J.D. Momeyer used in their dray service, ca. 1910-1920. Many trains stopped at Greenwich in those days and unloaded freight. Murray and Momeyer Dray Service delivered that freight to homes and businesses. They hauled most of the building materials for the East Greenwich School ca. 1914. You can see from this photo that the mill and elevator was run by steam power around the time of WW 1. The tall smoke stack is seen on the south side. The car looks like it might be a Model T Ford.Sometime after 1920 my grandfather began driving a truck owned by the mill and elevator.

J. H. Murray Trucking Service.

After WW 2 he drove a truck owned by John Albert of Greenwich. I rode with him often to pick up cattle at local farms and haul the stock to the Cleveland Stock Yards.
At the time of this photo my grandfather would use his best looking teams of horses to pull the hearse for funerals. The undertaker, who owned the hearse, would furnish the ornate harness for the horses.
Most of these details I learned from my uncle Wilbur Murray during a long conversation we had 45 years ago.

Submitted by Russ Enzor