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From: "Sharon Wiley" <>
Subject: Re: [ILPOPE-L] Whitesides
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:07:54 -0700
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Margaret: Do you happen to have the approximate dates of birth and death
for the older and the younger Alexander Murphy? I, too am descended from
the older Alexander. Thank you. Sharon Wiley
----- Original Message -----
From: "Margaret Oliver" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: [ILPOPE-L] Whitesides


> Hi Pat, No, I am sorry, I don't. At this point, my own research on the
> Murphy family is very sketchy. My sister had talked with the Pope County
> Clerk a couple years ago, and the clerk said that the Murphys were all
mixed
> with the Whitesides, and that there was a book in the Golconda Library. I
> have not had the opportunity to follow up on this yet, since I live in
> Maine. All I know right now is that my great great grandfather ,
Alexander
> Murphy, was married to Elizabeth Harper. This is from the marriage
> certificate of his son Alexander Murphy, who married a cousin, Georgeann
> Murphy. Her parents were James Murphy and Caroline Ellis. Alexander and
> Georgeann had a daughter named Corda Murphy. She eventually married Floyd
> Reynolds . They lived in Johnson County in the Simpson area, and had a
son
> named Loren Reynolds who became my father. I grew up in West Frankfort,
up
> in Franklin County.
> They are very helpful at the Pope County Courthouse in Golconda. I
just
> joined the Pope County mailing list hoping to find any sort of tidbits.
You
> never know what will turn up. Happy Hunting.
>
> Margaret (Reynolds) Oliver
> South Thomaston, Maine
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [ILPOPE-L] Whitesides
>
>
> > Hi--do you know the names of the parents of Helender Harper who married
a
> > Whitesides. Pat Klein
> >
> >

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