There are currently about 3,000 known burials in the Buena Vista Cemetery. There are a large number of graves of "Unknowns" and many buried there whose name is known but the location of the burial plot is not known. The earliest date on a grave marker is June 1855 but there may be burials in the cemetery from an earlier date. The earliest burials in Murphys are known to be in an area known as…