Brick Walls

Wanted: Information Leading to the Discovery of These Missing People

The following are details on the some of the bricks making up the walls in my family trees.

Thomas George Washington Murphy

What I Know: He purchased and sold several acres of land in Illinois, early in the Perry and Jackson counties’ organizations. He also married at least twice: on 13 Feb 1843 in Perry County Illinois to Mrs. (assuming the transcriber is correct) Mary Ann Hutchings, and on 25 Dec 1845 in Perry County Illinois to Rachel Hull (1827-1871), the daughter of Richard Anderson and Nancy Stockstill Hull. With Rachel Hull he had two known issue that survived to adulthood: Thomas Jackson Murphy (1849-1878) and George Washington Murphy (1856-1922). Thomas G.W. Murphy was out of the family picture by the 1860 U.S. Federal Census, when Rachel and her son George lived with her sister Nancy Hampleman‘s family, and Thomas Jackson Murphy lived with his maternal aunt Delphia Eaton‘s family and grandmother Nancy Stockstill Hull. The 1850 Federal Census for this family unit has yet to be located, so I have no idea when or where Thomas G.W. Murphy was born, when and where he died, when or where he was buried. DNA matches on Ancestry.com would place Thomas George Washington Murphy as a possible piece of the Willis/Clark or even a possible son of Adah Rice Murphy, but i have yet to substantiate that.

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