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MURPHY GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr


The information I have on my MURPHY line comes from the research of a distant cousin of mine, Gail R. Blancett. Murphy is a good old Irish name. So is Darby. So I assume this branch of my family came from Ireland originally.

Here is my MURPHY lineage as far as I can determine:

  1. _______ MURPHY; md. _______ DARBY (??)
  2. Darby MURPHY, d. 1769 Frederick Co., VA; md. Elizabeth ______, d. aft. 1769 Frederick Co., VA
  3. Sarah MURPHY, b. VA, d. Spartanburg Co., SC; md. Henry TURNER, Sr., b. VA, d. 30 Jan. 1812 Spartanburg Co., SC
  4. Henry TURNER, Jr., b. Frederick Co., VA, d. 2 Oct. 1812 Spartanburg Co., SC; md. Frances CHILDS
  5. Sarah TURNER, b. 1789 Spartanburg Co., SC, d. 1832 McLemoresville, Carroll Co., TN (buried in Leach Family Cemetery, Carroll Co., TN); md. ca. 1823 Spartanburg, Spartanburg Co., SC to William LITTLEFIELD, Jr., b. 16 May 1756 Frederick Co., MD, d. 15 Oct. 1836 Dekalb Co., AL
  6. Luther Rice LITTLEFIELD, b. 25 Dec. 1826 Spartanburg, Spartanburg Co., SC, d. 25 Mar. 1903 Adamsville, McNairy Co., TN; md. 28 Dec. 1848 Jonesborough, Tippah Co., MS to Nancy Artemisia WOOLVERTON, b. 28 Aug. 1829 Maury Co., TN, d. 24 Jan. 1926 Adamsville, McNairy Co., TN (both buried in the Adamsville Cemetery)
  7. Sarah Agatha LITTLEFIELD, b. 28 Oct. 1849 Jonesborough, Tippah Co., MS, d. 7 Feb. 1940 Leapwood, McNairy Co., TN; md. 18 Oct. 1868 McNairy Co., TN to William Ashley HARRIS, b. 19 May 1849 Hardin Co., TN, d. 12 Mar. 1916 McNairy Co., TN (both buried in the Mars Hill Cemetery, McNairy Co., TN)
  8. James David HARRIS, b. 9 Jan. 1871 McNairy Co., TN, d. 22 Sept. 1938 Marlow, Stephens Co., OK (buried in the Marlow Cemetery); md. 28 Oct. 1894 McNairy Co., TN to Docia Bell PYRON, b. 5 Oct. 1872 McNairy Co., TN, d. 1 Sept. 1944 Lyford, Willacy Co., TX (buried at Combes, TX)
  9. William Earl HARRIS, b. 8 Aug. 1895 McNairy Co., TN, d. 5 Jan. 1967 Cortez, Montezuma CO; md. 12 Dec. 1915 Parker Co., TX to Orpha Antonia Hazel GARVIN, b. 11 Nov. 1895 Jack Co., TX, d. 21 Dec. 1979 Cortez, Montezuma Co., CO (Both buried in the Dove Creek Cemetery) *These are my grandparents.



MURPHY E-MAIL LIST


If you have queries concerning the MURPHY surname, you may post these at the Murphy Family Genealogy List which is a part of the Rootsweb e-mail discussion lists. It offers free queries and discussion on the Murphy surname and variant spellings.

To subscribe, send an e-mail to: MURPHY-L-request@rootsweb.com
Leave subject line blank (This will be ignored).
In the body of the message type: subscribe

Then a welcome message will be sent telling how to post messages. Once you are subscribed, you may send a query to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: MURPHY-L@rootsweb.com

Archived postings to the Murphy e-mail list can be found on the WEB at:

    http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

When prompted, type in MURPHY for the name of the list. A second screen will appear where you can choose a year and type in a search word(s). If you type in MURPHY you would probably get all the previous postings to the list. You can also type in a person's name instead or a locality to narrow your search. If you wish to do a search by date, try entering it in quotation marks with the day and then the month as "01 Mar" using single digit dates preceded by a zero and only the first three letters of the month.



ROOTSWEB MURPHY MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the MURPHY surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Murphy Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any MURPHY name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.




An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the MURPHY family on GenForum. It can be found at the following address:

    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/murphy

***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the MURPHY lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.



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Last updated June 1, 2003.


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