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William A. Murphy

24 Jan 1852 – 18 Oct 1947

Birth	24 Jan 1852
Death	18 Oct 1947
Cemetery	Sacred Heart Cemetery Greeley , Greeley County , Nebraska , USA
Added by	Brenda Bardsley-Korus on 10 Apr 2014
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127780022

Bio

Name: William Murphy Sex: M Birth: 24 JAN 1852 in Kentucky Death: 18 OCT 1947 in Greeley,Nebraska Note: BIOGRAPHY: William Murphy had an Irish gleam in his eye and a jaunty side-to-side walk. He could still dance an Irish jig at the age of 90 when he came back to Illinois to see the first baby born in the Rockwell family in 32 years. His first wife Mary Hollingsworth had died at age 38, at the same age his mother did and close to the age his daughter would die at, 39. He had sold out his holdings in Arrowsmith, Illinois and left for Greeley, Nebraska with his five daughers (Myrtle 1881, Maggie 1882, Lula 1884, Maud 1889, and Susie 1891) and his son Ted 1893, and three other boys. His father John Murphy had done the same thing when his wife died in 1872, and he was living in Nebraska with his daughter Mary. His father John Murphy had come to America as a teenager from County Kilkenny, Ireland and had managed to accumulate several fine farms in his lifetime, in Illinois and Nebraska. William married again in Nebraska, but John never did, and had his body shipped back to Illinois after he died in 1909 to be buried with his beloved Margaret at the Catholic Cemetary in Bloomington, Illinois. William Murphy died in Greeley, Nebraska on Oct. 18, 1947 at the age of 95. Change Date: 3 MAR 2002 at 19:02:28 Father: John Murphy b: 1825 in County Kilkenny,Ireland Mother: Margaret Jones b: in Kentucky Marriage 1 Mary Elizabeth Hollingworth b: 1858 in Kentucky Children Margaret Marie Murphy b: 25 NOV 1882 in Arrowsmith,Illinois

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Family

Parents

• John Murphy 1820–1909
• Margaret J Jones Murphy 1835–1881

Spouse

• Catherine Kelly Murphy 1856–1937
• Mary Elizabeth Hollingsworth Murphy 1857–1896

Siblings

• Mary E Murphy 1853–1856
• Mary Murphy Kelly 1859–1896
• Edward B. Murphy 1869–1931
• George A Murphy 1875–1875

Children

• Gertrude E Murphy Arehart 1879–1969
• Myrtle J Murphy Hilger 1881–1971
• Margaret Marie Murphy Rockwell 1882–1922
• Lulu Frances Murphy Homan 1884–1944
• John J Murphy 1886–1945
• William Paul Murphy 1888–1964
• Maude A Murphy Racicky 1889–1948
• Susie Murphy Morfeld 1891–1984
• Edward Joseph "Ted" Murphy 1893–1979
• Thomas Murphy 1901–1902

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