Please note that this is only a temporary sticky note page. I will be reformatting all the info sometime and this will be easier to discern. Until then please bear with the scattered and unorganized data and I offer my humblest apologies. RmB
MURPHY Info:
http://www.bc-net.org/barbour/Barbour%20History.nsf/0/fc180028a9aace80852563c60060c80c?OpenDocument
F. Maude Boyien House. 123 Court Street. Greek Revival style. Built 1899. Original owner Dr. F. B. Murphy, successful medical doctor who performed the first double hairlip operation in Barbour County. Railed concrete steps enter onto the porch and molded into the bottom step is the name "Dr. Murphy".
Could this be our MURPHY?
From: Robert M Brady
To: Howard Brady
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: Murphy
Would G-Grandma (??) MURPHY have been more than likely buried in or around Philippi? I may be able to do some cemetery searches in and around Philippi.
From: Howard Brady
To: Robert M Brady
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: Murphy
Almost certainly your great-grandmother Murphy is buried in/near Philippi. The problem is identifying her. I certainly don't remember her name. There's going to be a bunch of people named Murphy--they were a prominent local family for many years. For example, Pop Troy remembered that the Murphy's were prominent in Philippi when he was growing up. (It's not that far from Belington.)
She was possibly Methodist, if that helps with the cemetery (that's what Cal was when I met her), or Baptist (most prominent church in town, and the affiliation for the college). G-G Murphy died, I think, in 1957 (possibly 1958) at an advanced age (90+).
I originally remembered her age at death as 98 or 99, but now that I think back, she may simply have been over 90. If she was much past 92, then she would have probably been too old to give birth to a child in 1905.
I hope I'm remembering all this stuff right. It's all pretty vague in my head. My entire connection was one weekend in Philippi in 1957, plus Cal's comments when her grandmother died a short time later. Fersure she was in her 90's, but maybe you better assume DOB range from 1858-1868.
If she died at the age of, say, 92, then she would have been about 40 years old when Pat was born, which is possible. It's interesting that Cal's parents were apparently both the product of late marriages and small families. I'd try 1865 as a DOB first, if you have a choice.
Incidentally, there is a famous, rather large covered bridge in Philippi, now (I think) a national historical site. Troops marched across the bridge during the Civil War. When I was a kid, and, I think, even in 1957 when I was there last, the main highway through town (US 250) went across the bridge. Of course, a new bridge has been built since then, but the old bridge is preserved.
I just did a bit of web searching, and the former Broaddus Clinic is now the Broaddus Hospital Association. There is a close affiliation between the Clinic/Hospital and Alderson-Broaddus College, located adjacent to the hospital. A-B (a northern Baptist school) has strong nursing and Physician's Assistant programs, and uses the hospital for training.
As I remember, the main part of town, with the court house, was on the north side of the river. That's also where Cal's relatives lived, on the side of a hill just north of the center of town, overlooking the town and river. The college and clinic were across the bridge on the south side river ridge, with the clinic at the top of the ridge next to where the highway crossed.
----- Original Message -----
From: ORCompton@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: MURPHY search
Hey, Robert,
I have an Anna Murphy as the daughter of Charles Marshall Murphy (1888--66-1944) and Mary Poe? Anna had a brother Franklin B. Murphy (1903, Philippi, Barbour, WV - ????). Franklin was a medical doctor, served in WWII, 1942-46 mainly in Northern Italy in the US Army medical Corps. He married Dorothy Stephens in Atlanta, Fulton, GA in 1928.
There was also a Dr. Benjamin Franklin Murphy ( 6/22/1818, Burnersville, Barbour, VA.- ????) who was a physician trained at the Medical College of Virginia, even then the premier medical school of the South. Benjamin practiced in Philippi and was the brother of Charles Marshall Murphy, and hence the uncle of Franklin B. and Anna.
I hope this helps. Incidentally, I follow this Murphy clan back to Thomas Murphy, born in 1700, in probably Caroline, VA. The Murphy clan came from either Scotland or Ireland as immigrants before the "Irish Starving Times."
OlinUpon receiving this email from Olin, I did a search on Charles Marshall Murphy. I found one result at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/1592/vangil2.html but it only mentions an Isaac MURPHY, whose parents were Charles & Mary, but no sibliings. And the birthdates of Isaac don't click.
Another page that shows a Marshall C. MURPHY (b.7-28-1793, married 3-9-1820) to Mary POE (b. 7-28-1802)
Marshall http://members.mountain.net/redeb/gendex/D0002/G0000085.html#I0705
Mary http://members.mountain.net/redeb/gendex/D0000/G0000086.html#I0706
Again, this doesn't fit with the parental information concerning Anna MURPHY of Olin's records.
The two emails I received today 6/15/03 RmB
From: Howard BradyTo: Robert M BradySent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 5:12 AMSubject: Re: MURPHY search
I think this much is probably correct:
- Your great-grandfather was Charles Marshall Murphy, who died in 1944. (His widow died in her 90's in 1957 or 1958, which fits.) Apparently there is ambiguity about his birth date, probably because some document is difficult to read, to determine if the date is 1866 or 1888. 1866 is almost certainly the correct date, based on the age of his wife.
- I doubt that there would be two women named Mary Poe who married into the Murphy family. The other records both indicate that a Mary Poe (1802-1883) married Marshall C. (Charles?) Murphy (1793-1878). This couple married in 1820. I think the confusion over the names caused the incorrect assumption that the wife of your ggf was Mary Poe. So at this point we still don't know the name of your ggm, whom I met in 1957 shortly before she died.
- No listed child of the marriage of Marshall C. Murphy (1793) and Mary Poe (1802) is named Charles Marshall Murphy. However, the dates match the possibility that one of their sons (John J., James G., Isaac R., Marshall L., or Samuel F.) was the father of Charles Marshall Murphy (b. 1866), your ggf. Incidentally, if the children in the "mountain.net" listing are in birth order, your gggf could be one of the older sons, I'd bet either John or James. (However, there is an alternative that follows.)
- Here's the biggie: Dr. Benjamin Franklin Murphy, if the birth date of 6/22/1818 is correct, was certainly NOT the brother of Charles Marshall. The gap in their birth dates is too great. The easiest explanation I can come up with, based on dates, is that Charles Marshall (1793) had an older brother who emigrated from Culpepper County to Barbour County about the same time as Charles Marshall (probably because their parents made the move). The first Dr. Murphy (Benj. Fr., 1818) would have been the son of the older brother.
- Because of this second probable Murphy link, I suggest that you are NOT descended from Marshall C. Murphy (1793) at all, but from this postulated brother. It is entirely possible, perhaps probable that the Dr. Benjamin Franklin Murphy (b. 1818, the first Dr. Murphy) is the father of Charles Marshall, your ggf.
- I'll bet this first Dr. Murphy had a son, also an MD, named, I think, Dr. Franklin B. Murphy, who built the house in Philippi on the walking tour. This second Dr. Murphy was a brother (or less likely a second cousin) of your ggf, and a prominent citizen of Philippi, of course. If this second Dr. Murphy was actually Anna and Frank's uncle, everything fits, and the first Dr. Murphy was your gggf.
- Your ggf's first son (Cal's uncle Frank, 1903) was named for his father's brother. Perhaps because of this, he went off to medical school and became the third Dr. Murphy in Philippi.
- The Irish "starving times" were brought on by the potato famine beginning in 1845. Obviously, there is no relationship between this and the emigration of your Murphy ancestor from Ireland.
Incidentally Your gm Anna (and I was right all along about her name) had a middle initial E. Vague memory suggests that it stood for Elizabeth. So its likely that both of your gm's were named Elizabeth. Neat.
From: ORCompton@aol.comSent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 2:27 AMSubject: Re: MURPHY searchHey, Robert,
I'm familiar with Debbie Robinson's info on Marshall (Marchal) C. Murphy and Mary Poe. I concur with it. She doesn't go beyond Isaac's birth.
The connection with the Poe and Murphy families goes from the early 1800s in Fauquier VA where William and David Murphy each married Poe cousins until at least 1849 when Absalom Knotts Murphy married Mary Mildred Poe in Barbour, VA. The Poes and Murphys were devout people and produced at least one Primitive Baptist Elder in each generation, it seems.
According to my records, Anna's line goes like this:
Thomas and Jane (?) Murphy
William and Leanna Poe Murphy
Marshall and Mary Poe Murphy
Isaac and Nancy VanGilder Murphy
Charles Marshall and Mary Poe (?) Murphy
Anna Murphy
Unfortunately, for Isaac's descendants, I do not have a source other that "Barbour Family History." This is a catchall of information I have gleaned from the Annual Murphy Reunion held at Philippi, Barbour County each year. My Murphy paper base data is in a file drawer half filled with Murphy Documents. I leave today for a week in Roanoke at the Virginia United Methodist Annual Conference but I'll check further when I return.
Olin
----- Original Message -----From: Howard BradyTo: Robert M BradyCc: Londa BradySent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 1:55 PMSubject: Re: MURPHY search
In that case, problem information in the first email:
- Mary Poe was incorrectly listed as wife of Charles Marshall Murphy, as I suggested.
- Birth date of Benjamin Franklin Murphy in 1818 was also incorrect, unless there's another Dr. Benjamin Franklin Murphy. (Probably not, just a typo-1868 turned into 1818.)
Thus, the first Dr. Murphy (there were only two) was, in fact, the uncle of your grandmother Pat, as the first email stated. He was the one who built the house on the walking tour in Philippi. The rest of the information about Pat's brother, Dr. Franklin B. (Cal's uncle Frank), is probably correct (e.g. service in WWII, etc.).Missing information: Name of your great-grandmother, Pat's mother, who married Charles Marshall Murphy (b. 1866).Apparently Charles Marshall Murphy had only the two children, Pat and Frank. I don't know if Cal's uncle Frank had any children.
Here is another couple of sources I found today 6/15/03 RmB
ID: I12299 Name: Isaac R. MURPHY Sex: M Birth: 1838 in Monongalia, Va Death: 1912 in Murphy Station, Barbour Co., WVA Reference Number: 12299
Father: Marshall C. MURPHY b: 28 JUL 1793 in Culpeper Co., VA
Mother: Mary POE b: 28 JUL 1802
Marriage 1 Nancy A VANGILDER b: 18 FEB 1838 in Monongalia, VaFor the VANGILDER lineage: www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/5516/vangilder.html (This link was provided by Lee F. McGee - See emails posted below. My thanks to Lee for the exciting additions
Children of Isaac & Nancy
William G. MURPHY b: 1856 (See Email Note Below on William's descendants)
Here is another graphical source of the above info, submitted and published by the same person:
Diana De Lauder Taylor
4842 Cherokee Ave.
Alexandria, VA 22312-1806
United States
lannytaylor@att.nethttp://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/a/y/Diana-D-Taylor/index.html
On 6/21/03, I received an email from Lee F. McGee ( lmcgee@bee.net ) who descended from the "William G. MURPHY" branch. Here is the Info Lee provided:
----- Original Message -----
From: lmcgee@bee.net
Mr. Brady,
I saw your post on the Barbour County genealogy page. It's so rarely updated that I've gotten in the habit of rarely checking it.
I looked at your Murphy info, but honestly haven't thought about my Murphy family for a long time.
Have you found the answer to your question yet?
I am descended from Isaac R. Murphy m. Nancy Ann Vangilder.
Son William G. Murphy married Barbara Ellen Fitzgerald, daughter Nannie Ruth Murphy was my great grandmother.
Again, I haven't thought about the Murphy's for awhile, but if you're still working on your question, I'm more than willing to try to help you.
I believe my Grandmother, Eunice Ellen Hall McGee (daughter of Nannie Ruth Murphy and Clayton Hall) knew Dr. Franklin B. Murphy.
Lee F. McGee
lmcgee@bee.net
On 6/24/03, Lee put it all together for me. My deepest appreciation for his time and research. He sent this excerpt "From The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, by Hu Maxwell, 1899"
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MURPHY, M. D., born 1868 near Burnersville, son of Isaac R. and Nancy (VanGilder) Murphy, was married at the residence of Albert G. Wilson, Philippi, August 2, 1898, to Alice C., daughter of Albert and Jennie (Jones) Wilson. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, an Odd Fellow, in politics a Democrat, and by profession a physician. Dr. Murphy attended school at the West Virginia Conference Seminary at Buckhannon; and then took up the study of medicine in the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, remaining two years and graduating in April, 1895. He located in Philippi, where he built up an extensive and lucrative practice, being frequently called into other counties. Drs. Murphy and Williams performed the first operation in Barbour County for the restoration of double hairlip, being so successful as to greatly relieve the deformity and to establish speech. Dr. Murphy has been espcecially successful in his treatment of fever, having lost but one case during his practice. On his father's side his ancestors were Irish, and on his mother's side German. His grandfather, Marshall Murphy, came from Virginia.
Robert, there is no doubt to your lineage back to Marshall C. Murphy, and there is no doubt that there were only two Dr. Murphys, and that uncle Dr. Murphy had the engraving on the steps, I believe.
If I understand you correctly, you have nothing beyond Nancy Ann VanGilder, who married Isaac Murphy, correct?
Nancy was the daughter of James VanGilder and Rachel Reed. James VanGilder was the son of Jacob VanGilder. See:
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/5516/vangilder.html
Rachel Reed was the daughter of Isaac Reed and Rebecca Titus.
Isaac Reed was born in Hunterdon County, NJ, and the Titus line goes WAY back.
Isaac Reed and Jacob VanGilder were in the Revolutionary War.
Lee
Many thanks to Dr. McGee! As a result of this info, I now have another branch (SMILEY) that goes all the way back to before the year of 1612! RmB
Charles Marshal MURPHY was married to Ella Sarah SMILEYSo, for the record:Thomas and Jane (?) Murphy
William and Leanna Poe Murphy
Marshall and Mary Poe Murphy
Isaac and Nancy VanGilder Murphy - www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/5516/vangilder.html
Charles Marshall and Ella Sarah SMILEY
Anna Elizabeth Murphy m. Raymond Martin CURRYIt all fits together because my father said that she had passed away shortly after he had met her in August 1957 .Name: Ella Sarah SMILEY (This lineage is traced all the way back to before 1612) Sex: F Birth: 2 AUG 1867 Death: 21 JAN 1958
Father: Wilson H SMILEY b: 17 MAR 1820 in Perry Co, PA
Mother: Sarah Ellen HENDERSON
Marriage 1 Charles M MURPHYIt was thru Dr. Lee F. McGee's research on the MURPHY lineage that put it together for me.Another interesting note is that there are HENDERSONs on both branches of my lineage, paternally and maternally. But I don't think their related.
----- Original Message -----From: ORCompton@aol.comSent: Friday, July 04, 2003 10:25 AMSubject: Re: MURPHY searchHey, Robert,
Well, we've finished the welcoming service for the ministers new to our district.
I started to get my data together on Dr. B. F. Murphy; however, I decided to find what a search study on his name would show -- and found that your problem had already been solved! Congratulations.
Incidentally, Isaac was a wealthy cattleman and a Justice of the Peace, an important governmental figure in the 1800s. Charles Marshall was a prominent lawyer in Philippi.
Take care of each other!
Olin
