Lucy Ellen Markley was born on 5 June 1909 at
North Dakota. She was the daughter of
William David Markley and
Nellie Francis Miller. Lucy Ellen Markley married
Brady Murphy, son of
Jonathan Murphy, on 2 April 1939 at
Shenandoah Co., Virginia. Lucy Ellen Markley died on 11 January 1967 at
Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., West Virginia, at age 57; Lucy died of cirrhosis of the liver. She was New Tag Obituary from an undated newspaper:
"Mrs. Brady Murphy
Mrs. Lucy Ellen Murphy, 57, wife of Brady Murphy, of Hedgesville, Route 2, died Wednesday at 4:55 p.m. in City Hospital, where she had been a patient for 8 weeks.
A member of Providence E.U.B. Church, she was born in North Dakota, June 5, 1909, daughter of William David and Nellie Francis Miller Markley.
Surviving with her husband are two sons, Richard Markley, Edinburg, Va; by a former marriage, and William Bruce Murphy, at home; two daughters, Mrs. Harley Potter, Kearneysville, and Mrs. Linwood Markley, Hedgesville, Route 2; 19 grandchildren; one brother, Russell Markley, Route 3; three sisters - Mrs. William Fellers, Kearneysville, Route 1; Miss Lillie Markley, Edinburg, Route 1 and Mrs. Jack Walker, Route 3.
Services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Brown Funeral Home by the Rev. Frank Douty. Burial will be in the Providence Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home Friday from 7 to 9 p.m."
In January 1967. She was buried in January 1967 at
Providence Cemetery.