History & local legend
Olive Reformed Church Cemetery on Logan Ferry Road in Murrysville is associated with the ghost of Alexander Logan. Logan operated an inn and ferry on the Allegheny River, where timber rafts stopped overnight while traveling toward Pittsburgh. The cemetery tradition places his figure inland from that riverfront business.
In July 2008, a neighbor described visiting with a five-year-old to look for Logan and taking about thirty photographs of the stones. The burial ground includes Margaret Beighley's 1846 marker, whose inscription asks passersby to remember that she once lived as they do.
Sources
- Shadowlands, Murrysville’s Olive Cemetery and the ghost of Logan, archived 2004
- StrangeUSA, local visitors’ accounts at Olive Cemetery, including the neighbor’s July 2008 visit
- PA-Roots, April 2005 field survey of Olive Cemetery on Logan Ferry Road including Margaret Beighley’s inscription
- Luella Rodgers Frazier, The Early Years of New Kensington, 1966, Logan’s inn and ferry
- U.S. Geological Survey, historic Murrysville quadrangle, Olive Church of Murrysville above Logan Ferry Road
