Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - Joseph Murphy JOSEPH MURPHY

    Joseph Murphy in 1836 came from Allegheny County Penn., and settled on the Joynes Survey, in the southwestern part of the township, near the site of Claibourne Village.  He pursued the avocation of farming, and died on his farm in 1857.  His widow, Mrs. Rebecca Murphy, still survives. A brother, Samuel Murphy, accompanied him to this home.  He was an old bachelor, hunted a great deal, and died at Richwood in 1882, aged eighty-one years.