When James Wallis Murphy was born in October 1850, in Vienna, Vienna Township, Scott, Indiana, United States, his father, John Timothy Murphy, was 26 and his mother, Mary Ann Elizabeth Smallwood, was 19. He married Percillia A Parks on 14 August 1877, in Columbus, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Bogle Township, Gentry, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Civil District 2, Cheatham, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died on 2 May 1906, in Holcomb, Dunklin, Missouri, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in St. Francis Township, Clay, Arkansas, United States.
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Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Liam, Aileen, Kieran, Brigid, Donal, Siobhan, Eamon, Aidan, Dermot, John Patrick, Declan.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murchadha ‘descendant of Murchadh’, a personal name composed of the elements muir ‘sea’ + cath ‘battle’, i.e. ‘sea warrior’. This was an important family in Tyrone. For the surname with mac, see also McMurrough (Leinster).
English: variant of Morphey (see Morphew ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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