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From: "~Pat~" <>
Subject: Murphy/Herigstad
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:16:51 -0400


It has been six years since I first posted a request concerning my Murphy family. Since then I have been able to add some information and am hoping someone will recognize the family.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

There were two brothers, Thomas Joseph (bn March 1862 - Baptismal record at St Peter's RC church, Westernport, MD) and Daniel (bn abt 1864) sons of John and Mary Ann O'Hara Murphy. They both appear on the 1880 U S census in Westernport, MD.

Thomas married a woman named Elizabeth Last name unknown (bn abt 1868 in England). In 1900 they lived in Trinidad City, LasAnimas Co, CO where Thomas was a road overseer for the county. On the 1900 census, Thomas gives his birth date as 1863.

By 1910 they were living at 1722 S Pearl St; Denver, Denver Co, CO and Thomas was a contractor for the Denver Water Co.

1920 found them living at the Colonial Apts on Lincoln St in Sterling, Logan Co, CO with Thomas a contractor for the Water Works System.

According to family history, Thomas died in the late 1920s. Elizabeth is found on the 1930 census living at 940 E 19th Ave; Denver, Denver Co, CO, listed as a widow. Finding their obits would be a definite plus.

It appears Thomas Joseph and Elizabeth Murphy had no children.

Daniel 'Dan' Murphy was reported by the family to have gone to Colorado also, but I can find no records of him.

I have a picture of their sister, Annie Murphy Dieling and two young women supposedly her nieces and a great niece taken at the time she attended Thomas' funeral. The family says the young women are related to the Herigstad family in someway. I have not found any connection.

If any of this sounds familiar and there might be a family connection, please contact me.

Thanks in advance

Pat Dailey
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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