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Subject: Re: [MURPHY] William Murphy descendents
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 05:23:17 -0400
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Where in NC did your Murphy's trace back to?

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Subject: [MURPHY] William Murphy descendents


> Hello,
> I read in the MURPHY Digest, Vol 2, Issues 14 and 15 about a search
> for
> a William Murphy by Sallie, and a reply by Charlie Murphy.
> I hope that I have a connection and some more info to add. I have
> been
> tracing my Murphy roots for several years and it led from North Carolina
> through Kentucky to Northwest Missouri and Nebraska. My mother was
> Dorritt
> (nmn) Murphy, born in Lebanon, Red Willow County, Nebraska. Her father
> was
> Robert Patent Murphy who died in McCook, Nebraska. He was the son of
> John
> Murphy and Agnes Cochrane (pronounced Co'ran) and was of Scottish
> ancestry. She
> was six feet tall and weighed 90 pounds. They were married in November
> 1863
> or 1867. Agnes Cochran's sister was named Mary Cochrane Chambers.
> Robert
> Patent Murphy's father was John Murphy, one of 5 brothers who fought for
> the
> Union during the Civil War. John may have been the 4th brother. A 5th
> brother, the youngest, was named William Murphy. After Agnes Cochran's
> death
> in childbirth, John Murphy remarried (I think his 2nd wife's name was
> Mary
> M.?) They had 4-5 daughters. The father of the 5 Murphy brothers was
> named
> William or James and he was married to Fanny (Francis) Hammock or
> Hammack.
>
> If any of this sound like what you are looking for, I have a letter
> from
> one of the 4 daughters of John Murphy and his wife Mary written to my
> aunt
> Nellie Murphy in early 1900's.
>
> Duane Tollaksen
> Alexandria, VA
>
>
>
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