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Subject: Re: [MURPHY-L] John Mark Murphy and his wives
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 22:34:45 EDT

John,

You are not wrong in assuming that this Murphy line practiced polygamy. It
has been well documented within the family history records, but not public
records. My great-grandfather, John Joseph Pledger Murphy, was a grandson of
the John Mark Murphy you are researching.

John J. P. Murphy was imprisoned in 1886 for "cohabitation" when he married
his second wife, Rebecca Jane Humphrey, his cousin whom he became aquainted
with while working on the railroad in Ogden, Utah. After leaving prison, he
and the LDS church decided that this would be a good time to go on a mission
to the Southern States. After returning from his mission, the church sent he
and his second wife, Rebecca (my g.grandmother) to Colonia Juarez, Mexico to
start a polygamy colony. He died there in 1889.

Also,
(Captain) Jessie Eastes Murphy, son of Emanuel Masters Murphy, played a major
role in regaining the right to vote for those Mormons who no longer practiced
polygamy.

Bob Murphy

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