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     Mary J. McMurry was born circa 1830 in Tennessee.^1,2
     

     Mary J. McMurry was listed at age 20, born in Tennessee, as a member of the household of Simpson McMurry in Davidson Co., Tennessee, in the Census of 1850, enumerated 26 September 1850.²

     Nettie E. McMurry was born in January 1891 in Tennessee.^1,2
     

     Nettie E. McMurry was listed as a daughter at age 9, born in Tennessee, in the household of William Mortimer McMurry in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee, in the Census of 1900 enumerated 4 June 1900.¹

     Nettie E. McMurry was listed as a daughter at age 18, born in Tennessee, in the household of William Mortimer McMurry in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee, in the Census of 1910 enumerated 22 April 1910.²

     Nora L. McMurry was born in August 1889 in Tennessee.^1,2 She married R. Walker Neal circa 1910.²
     

     Nora L. McMurry was listed as a daughter at age 10, born in Tennessee, in the household of William Mortimer McMurry in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee, in the Census of 1900 enumerated 4 June 1900.¹

     Nora L. Neal was listed as a daughter at age 20, born in Tennessee, in the household of William Mortimer McMurry in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee, in the Census of 1910 enumerated 22 April 1910.²

     Samuel McMurry married Sallie Kincaid, daughter of John Kincaid and Elizabeth Logan.¹ Samuel was killed Buchanan's Station on 25 March 1792 in an Indian raid in Davidson Co., Tennessee.^1,2

     Samuel McMurry was probably born in Virginia on 24 September 1791.¹ He married Levicy Morton on 14 October 1815 in Williamson Co., Tennessee. Samuel and Levicy had an four sons and three daughters beside John, the eldest, listed..^2,3

     Sarah McMurry was born circa 1845 in Tennessee.^1,2
     

     Sarah McMurry was listed at age 5, born in Tennessee, as a member of the household of William McMurry in Davidson Co., Tennessee, in the Census of 1850, enumerated 26 September 1850.²

     Simpson McMurry was born on 25 April 1796 in Kentucky.^1,2,3 He married Jane Clarke on 10 October 1816 in Clark Co., Kentucky.⁴
     

     The McMurry plantations were to the south of the town of Donelson. Later the property was owned by the Gillems and the Whitworths. It is now called Bluefields. Simpson lived in back of the of what is now Bluefields.⁵

     Samuel McMurry, who was killed in 1792 and who was the husband of Sallie Kincaid, had purchased land near Donelson, Tennessee. After his death, Sallie returned to Kentucky with her sons. There a few years later she gave birth to another son, Simpson. The father of Simpson is not known. Samuels sons returned to Donelson to claim the land of their father. Simpson did not share in this claim. Over the years he cared for his step-brother, John, who was intermittently insane and eventually came into possession of some of his land.

     In the Census of 1850, enumerated 26 September 1850, Simpson McMurry was listed as a head of household in Davidson Co., Tennessee. He was listed at age 50, occupation as a farmer with no property value, born in Kentucky.. Also enumerated in the household: Jane McMurry, John McMurry, Charles McMurry, Mary J. McMurry and Elizabeth McMurry.²

     In the Census of 1860, enumerated 15 June 1860, Simpson McMurry was listed as a head of household in Davidson Co., Tennessee. He was listed at age 55, occupation as a farmer with no real estate value listed and personal estate value of $1600, born in Kentucky. Also enumerated in the household: Jane McMurry, Elizabeth McMurry and John McMurry.³

     Thomas McMurry was born circa 1838 in Tennessee.^1,2
     

     Thomas McMurry was listed at age 12, born in Tennessee, as a member of the household of William McMurry in Davidson Co., Tennessee, in the Census of 1850, enumerated 26 September 1850.²

     William McMurry was born in 1849.¹
     Anne Sloan lists this William as a son of William and Hannah. However, he never appears in a Census. Could it be that he died as an infant? The next son that is born, in 1861, is also named William.

     William McMurry was born on 3 August 1786 in Virginia.^1,2 He married Polly Morton on 11 June 1810 in Williamson Co., Tennessee.³
     

     In the Census of 1850, enumerated 26 September 1850, William McMurry was listed as a head of household in Davidson Co., Tennessee. He was listed at age 68, occupation as a farmer with property value of $12,000, born in Virginia.. Also enumerated in the household: Ann McMurry, Margaret McMurry, John McMurry, Martha McMurry, Thomas McMurry, David McMurry, Frances McMurry and Sarah McMurry.²

     William Clark McMurry was born circa 1820 in Kentucky.^1,2,3,4 He married Hannah Elizabeth Sloan, daughter of John Henry Sloan and Angeline Elizabeth Jessup, on 31 October 1848 in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee.^5,6 William died in August 1879 in Davidson Co., Tennessee.¹
     

     The following was found in the Nashville City Directory pertaining to William C. McMurry:

     1865, William McMurry, Clerk, home S. Market & Murfreesboro Pike
     1866, W. C. McMurry, Clerk, home S. Market near S. Nashville
     1867, William C. McMurry, Druggist, 19 Public Square, home 2 S. Jefferson
     1868, William C. McMurry, Druggist, 19 Public Square, home 42 S. Jefferson
     1869, W. C. McMurry, prescriptionist, 11 Public Square, home 332 S. Sumner
     1870, W. C. McMurry, prescriptionist, 12 Public Square, home 332 S. Sumner
     1871, W. C. McMurry, prescriptionist, 12 Public Square, home 122 Filmore
     1880, Hannah E. McMurray, widow of William, Fillmore near Maury
     1881, Elizabeth McMurray widow of William, home 104 Maury

     William was a druggist for most of his life, but it got so the hours were too long for him. He quit the drug business and had a coal yard when he died.⁷

     In the Census of 1850, enumerated 18 October 1850, W. C. McMurry was listed as a head of household in Davidson Co., Tennessee. He was listed at age 30, occupation as a merchant, born in Tennessee.. Also enumerated in the household: Elizabeth McMurry.²

     In the Census of 1860, enumerated 15 June 1860, William Clark McMurry was listed as a head of household in Davidson Co., Tennessee. He was listed at age 40, occupatin as a farmer with real estate value of $10,000 and personal estate value of $1000, born in Kentucky. Also enumerated in the household: Angeline Elizabeth McMurry, Ida Vanetta McMurry, Eliza McMurry and Ellen A. McMurry.⁴

     In the Census of 1870, enumerated 21 July 1870, William Clark McMurry was listed as a head of household in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee. He was listed at age 51, occupation as a physcian with property value of $200, born in Kentucky. Also enumerated in the household: Hannah Elizabeth McMurry, Angeline Elizabeth McMurry, Ida Vanetta McMurry, William Mortimer McMurry, Lee McMurry, Frances McMurry and Evila Belle McMurry.³

     William Mortimer McMurry was born in August 1861 in Tennessee.^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7} He married Emma M. ? circa 1888.⁴
     

     William went by the name of Willie.

     William was an engineer on the Pan-American, queen of the Old Reliable passenger trains, for the Louisville & Nashville (L&N) Railroad. The following is a transcription of an article that appeared in the employee's magazine of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in June 1935. The article was transcribed and provided by Ben Hullan.⁸

“Putting The Pan-American Over The Ether Waves”

Since it began its daily-except-Sunday broadcast over Radio Station WSM on August 15, 1933, the Pan-American, queen of Old Reliable passenger trains, has thrilled and puzzled many people. Listeners in Cuba, Canada, and in almost every state in the United States, have written many letters expressing their appreciation of this novel broadcast, asking numerous questions and offering various suggestions. Is the broadcast authentic or faked? How fast is the train running? How many cars are in the train? Who are the engineers? How old are the engineers? What type of engine pulls the train? How is the broadcast made? These are some of the things they want to know, and an individual reply has been made to every one of the many hundred letters, answering the questions asked and giving other information of interest.

The broadcast, which goes on the air at 5:08 p.m. each week day, is the real thing and requires about two minutes. The announcer opens with a short announcement that the sounds of the train as it passes the 878 foot tower of WSM 12 miles south of Nashville are about to be broadcast. As he finishes the train is heard approaching, the engine whistle blowing the regulation grade crossing signal of two long blasts, one short, and a final long blast. As the train rushes toward the microphone the sound increases in volume until it seems that the engine is about to come right through your room. The whistle stops, the train passes the microphone and fades into the distance, then the announcer concludes the program with a brief talk about the Old Reliable, its trains and the places they go.

A rather unique and interesting demonstration of the genuineness of the broadcast was provided just a few days ago by a mocking bird perched near the microphone. During the brief pause between the opening talk and the approach of the train listeners could plainly hear the bird singing.

A great deal of preparation was necessary to get this broadcast started, and considerable care must be exercised each day so that it will “click” just right. Many tests were necessary to determine the best location for the “mike.” After this was decided it was necessary to run a wire from the microphone location to the transmitting station near the tower seven-tenths of a mile distant. There the wire was connected with a line to the WSM studio in Nashville. The train signals picked up by the microphone are carried over this line through the control room at the studio and back through the transmitting station to the tower which radiates the sound waves that are caught by your radio.

Inasmuch as the announcements on the program are made from the Nashville studio there arose the problem of timing the opening announcement so that it would end just an instant before the train sounds come in. After much testing this was solved by making a wire connection between an annunciator that was installed in a shanty that had been placed at the microphone location and a point in the track 3,000 feet north. When the front wheels of the engine reach this point the annunciator bell rings in the cabin and the broadcast begins.

Next there arose the question: “Where shall the engineer start and stop whistling?” This called for more testing and the placing of whistling posts. The post marking the spot where the engineer starts whistling is 1200 feet north of the microphone; the post where the whistle ends is just a few feet north of the “mike.”

Each day about four o’clock the radio engineer goes down to the shanty and makes tests to see that everything is O.K. If any trouble has developed there is still time to make repairs. If not, he returns to the transmitter. Fifteen minutes before The Pan-American is due the engineer goes back to the shanty and again tests his apparatus. Then he sits down to await the ringing of the annunciator bell in the shanty which tells him that The Pan-American has arrived at the point 3,000 feet north. He speaks into a telephone on which three men--an operator at the transmitter, another in the control room at the studio, and the announcer also at the studio--are waiting and tells them to start the broadcast. Immediately the controls are manipulated and the announcer starts his opening talk. This is timed so that he will finish just as the train reaches the whistling post 1,200 feet north of the shanty.

About a mile north of the shanty, which is located on the west side of the track opposite WSM’s tower near Brentwood, Tenn., there is a separation of the double track. One line leads to Athens, Ala., via Columbia, Tenn., and the other leads to Athens via Lewisburg, Tenn. Between Brentwood and Athens these are two single track lines and as The Pan-American goes via Lewisburg it crosses over from one track to the other at Brentwood and in doing this is required to slow down to 20 miles per hour. Then it encounters an up-grade and does not begin to regain speed until just before it reaches the spot where the annunciator wire connects with the track 3,000 feet north of the microphone. When it passes the shanty it is running about 45 miles per hour. Later on when it gains full momentum it “highballs” through the scenery at 60 miles an hour, or faster. There are generally six cars in The Pan-American as it passes the microphone. This varies of course according to the ebb and flow of travel, but there are never less than six. These include one diner, one club lounge car, two Pullmans, one day coach and one combination coach and baggage car.

Three engineers are regularly assigned to The Pan-American between Nashville and Birmingham Ala., who take part in the broadcast by sounding the whistle at the proper time. They are Tom Burns, who began railroading on the L. & N. in 1880 and who has been an engineer for 48 years; Jack Hayes, who entered L. & N. service in 1887 and has been pulling throttles for 40 years; and Bill McMurry, who has been a railroader for 53 years and has spent all but seven years of that time as an engineer. All three live in Nashville. Many fans have learned to identify these engineers by the differences in their whistling technique.

When The Pan-American has eight cars or less it is drawn by a K-5, or 4-6-2, type engine. When there are more than eight cars and greater power is needed to maintain the schedule an L-1, 4-8-2, locomotive is used.

The broadcast was originally made at 5:38 p.m., but on February 5 was moved up to 5:08 on account of the shortening of the southbound Pan-American’s schedule which puts it by the shanty 30 minutes earlier.

     William Mortimer McMurry was listed at age 8, born in Tennessee, as a member of the household of William Clark McMurry in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee, in the Census of 1870, enumerated 21 July 1870.²

     Willie Murry was listed as a son at age 18, born in Tennessee, in the household of Anna Murry in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee, in the Census of 1880 enumerated 3 June 1880.³

     William Mortimer McMurry was listed as the head of a family on the 1900 Census enumerated 4 June 1900, in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee. He was listed at age 38, occupation as a railroad man, born in Tennessee. Also enumerated in the household: Emma M. McMurry, Nora L. McMurry, Nettie E. McMurry and Charles Taylor McMurry.⁴

     William Mortimer McMurry was listed as the head of a family on the 1910 Census enumerated 22 April 1910, in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee. He was listed at age 49, occupation as a locomotive engineer, born in Tennessee. Also enumerated in the household: Emma M. McMurry, Nettie E. McMurry, Charles Taylor McMurry, Eleanor McMurry, R. Walker Neal and Nora L. Neal.⁵

     William Mortimer McMurry was listed as the head of a family on the 1920 Census enumerated 7 January 1920, in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee. He was listed at age 57, occupation as a engineer on a steam railroad, born in Tennessee. Also enumerated in the household: Emma M. McMurry and Eleanor McMurry.⁶

     In the Census of 1930, enumerated 15 April 1930, Will McMurry was listed as head of household in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee. He was listed at age 69, occupation as a locomotive engineer for a railroad, born in Tennessee. Also enumerated in the household: Angeline Burkitt, Emma M. McMurry, Harry Burkitt and Eleanor Burkitt.⁷

     Olivia B. McWherter married Frances McMurry, son of William Clark McMurry and Hannah Elizabeth Sloan, on 12 June 1889 in Davidson Co., Tennessee.¹

     Heribert of Meaux was born circa 910.² He married Eadgifu of England, daughter of Edward I of England and Ælflaed of England, circa 951 in St. Quentin, France.² Heribert died between 980 and 984.³ Conflicting evidence states that he died circa 995.²

     Estrid of Mecklenberg was born circa 979.¹ She married Olof III Skötkonung of Sweden, son of Erik of Sweden and Sigrid ?.^2,3

     Artavasdes I of Media Athropatene married Unknown of Commagene, daughter of Artiochus I Philhellen and Isias Philostorgos.²

     Darius of Media Athropatene married Unknown of Parthia, daughter of Phraates IV of Parthia.²

     Vonones II of Media Athropatene was born in 10 BC.² Vonones died in 51 AD.
     

     Vonones married his sister.

     Mandane of Media married Cambyses I of Anshan, son of Cyrus I.¹

     Mahaud de Mehun married Robert de Courtenay, son of Peter I de Courtenay and Elizabeth de Courtenay, in 1216.¹