Person:Lemuel Murry (1)

    January 2006 - the lastest information on who the parents were of Lemuel Gilsen Murry has been updated from information from a booklet by Enlow Ose of Sacramento, CA.  All of the information posted below, which pointed to Lemuel's parents being James & Cassa Yarnell Murry, appears now to be unsubstantiated according to the evidence of an obituary of Susan Alice Murray Mather in 1943 which gave her Uncle as L. G. Murray of Winslow, AR and the 1880 census which listed Lemuel's nephew as Robert Murray, son of James Lawrence Murry.

   

    From his obit...we know that he served in the Civil War for the Confederacy.  The only L. G. in the files appears to be L. G. MURRAY who served in Co. F 35th Ark. Infantry (Confederate) as a private.  This has not been verified.  The 35th website www.aristotle.net/~tomezell/AR_infy.htm: Organized by individual companies throughout June of 1862, and organized as the 35th Arkansas Infantry Regiment on July 11, 1862 under the command of Colonel Frank A. Rector. Field Officers were Lt. Col. (later Colonel) Harry J. McCord, Major John J. Dillard, and later Colonel James P. King, Lt. Col. John W. Wallace, and Major Mark T. Tatum. Initially assigned (along with the 34th, 37th, and 39th Arkansas) to Fagan's Brigade in Shoup's Division in MG Thomas Hindman's 1st Corps of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi, where it fought in the battle of Prairie Grove on Dec. 7-8, 1862. After the retreat from Prairie Grove to Van Buren, Fagan's Brigade was ultimately reassigned to General Sterling Price's division. On July 4, 1863, the brigade and the 35th Arkansas served in the attack on the federal post at Helena, Arkansas, and subsequently in the defense of Little Rock in September, 1863. The brigade, now under the command of Brig. Gen. A.T. Hawthorn and composed of the 29th, 34th, and 35th Arkansas regiments, spent the winter of 1863 in the vicinity of Arkadelphia, and then was sent south with Churchill's Arkansas Infantry Division to Shreveport, LA in the early spring of 1864 to assist General Kirby Smith's army in countering Union General Nathaniel Banks' advance along the Red River. After fighting in the battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, Churchill's Division and Kirby Smith then marched back to Arkansas to assist General Price in dealing with the other half of the Red River campaign, Union Gen'l Frederick Steele's Camden Expedition moving southwest from Little Rock. The Division and Hawthorn's Brigade arrived in time to join the pursuit of Steele's army as it retreated from Camden, and join in the attack on Steele as he tried to cross the Saline River at Jenkins' Ferry on April 30, 1864. Hawthorn's regiment returned to the vicinity of Camden following Jenkins' Ferry, and saw no substantial combat for the remainder of the war. The regiment ultimately surrendered with Kirby Smith's army on May 26, 1865.  Also Known As: 22nd Arkansas (Rector's-King's-McCord's) Infantry Regiment.  Some of the names of the men in this unit:

W.W. DUCKWORTH; the FORD names of Corp. J. H., J. S., J. T., James & William FORD; 1st Lt. Robert D. HAYS; William HEATH; Sgt. G. S. LEE & Sgt. J. W. LEE; W. C. MITCHELL; L. G. MURRAY; and three RUDDICK men - Corp. Joseph, S.D.C, and Sgt. William RUDDICK.

    This website - http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/35that_atf.html - says "MURRAY, L.G. Pvt - Enl 1 Jun 1863 at Little Rock, AR. Deserted 10 Sep 1863. Present 29 Feb 1864."

 

    On the 1870 Sugar Creek Twp., Benton Co., AR census, he is named as Samuel G. Murry, house 125, 44 years old b. TN, a farmer, property value $500, Rebecca is 41 b. TN, Amanda 20 b. TN, John 18 TN, Thomas 16 TN, Horace 13 AR, Martha 12 AR, Elizabeth 9, Sophronia 7, Dora 3, Viola 2.

  In 1880 Benton Co., AR census, Brightwater, p. 18, house and family 136, he is listed as L. G. Murray, 54yrs old, farmer, born TN, his father born KY, and his mother born TN.  His nephew, Robert S. MURRY, 29yrs b. TN, lives with them.  The next house, number 137 is T. V. Murray.  
    *1880 Census-Bright Water, Benton, AR-FHL Film 1254038  National Archives Film T9-0038, p.424D
     

Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
L. G. MURRAY Self M M W 54 TN Occ: Farmer Fa: KY Mo: TN
Rebecca MURRAY Wife F M W 52 TN Occ: Keeping House Fa: VA Mo: VA
Amanda C. MURRAY Dau F S W 30 TN Fa: TN Mo: TN
Horace P. MURRAY Son M S W 22 AR Fa: TN Mo: TN
Sophrona MURRAY Dau F S W 16 AR Fa: TN Mo: TN
Dora MURRAY Dau F S W 13 AR Fa: TN Mo: TN
Viola MURRAY Dau F S W 12 AR Fa: TN Mo: TN
Robt. S. MURRAY Nephew M S W 29 (b. c1851)

    In 1890 L. G. MURRAY was on the Personal Property Tax Book in Washington Co., AR, Winslow Twp., page 51, but does not appear on the Real Estate Tax List for 1890.  This was according to a book called "1890 Real Estate Taxpayers, Washington Co., AR" compiled by Lois N. Miller (Dallas Library).

    Cousin Sandi Spete wrote that Lemuel worked as a tunnel watchman at Winslow, AR for the RR Company.

    One document which I have not personally seen, supposedly a hand written memorium found in a leather purse belonging to Mollie Epperson Rife Murry along with several letters and a copy of L. G. Murry"s Masonic Certificate: "Bro. L. G. Murry of Arkansas was visiting his children at Paluxy when he was taken very suddenly ill and in a short time died.  Bro. Murry was 84 years old at death.  He requested a Masonic burial by Paluxy Lodge No. 393, Texas.  Bro. Murry was made a mason in the Winslow Lodge in the year 1857 in Madison Co., AR and laid to rest with Masonic honors Feb. 22nd, 1909.  dying away from home and among strangers, yet the ties of fraternity were thrown around him and he was made to feel he was in the midst of brethren.  Let us all rember death will overtake us somewhere and sometime and only be ready that we may meet in the Celestial Lodge above.Another document, supposedly a hand written memorium found in a leather purse belonging to Mollie Epperson Rife Murry along with several letters and a copy of L. G. Murry"s Masonic Certificate: "Bro. L. G. Murry of Arkansas was visiting his children at Paluxy when he was taken very suddenly ill and in a short time died.  Bro. Murry was 84 years old at death.  He requested a Masonic burial by Paluxy Lodge No. 393, Texas.  Bro. Murry was made a mason in the Winslow Lodge in the year 1857 in Madison Co., AR and laid to rest with Masonic honors Feb. 22nd, 1909.  dying away from home and among strangers, yet the ties of fraternity were thrown around him and he was made to feel he was in the midst of brethren.  Let us all rember death will overtake us somewhere and sometime and only be ready that we may meet in the Celestial Lodge above.Another document, supposedly a hand written memorium found in a leather purse belonging to Mollie Epperson Rife Murry along with several letters and a copy of L. G. Murry"s Masonic Certificate: "Bro. L. G. Murry of Arkansas was visiting his children at Paluxy when he was taken very suddenly ill and in a short time died.  Bro. Murry was 84 years old at death.  He requested a Masonic burial by Paluxy Lodge No. 393, Texas.  Bro. Murry was made a mason in the Winslow Lodge in the year 1857 in Madison Co., AR and laid to rest with Masonic honors Feb. 22nd, 1909.  dying away from home and among strangers, yet the ties of fraternity were thrown around him and he was made to feel he was in the midst of brethren.  Let us all rember death will overtake us somewhere and sometime and only be ready that we may meet in the Celestial Lodge above.

    Enlow Ose of California wrote the following in his booklet: Eight of nine children survived L.G. Murray.  They were Mrs. Amanda Jones and John M. Murray of Winslow, Arkansas, Mrs. Harvey Grube of Porter, Mrs. Martin Gonyer of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Mrs. Paterson and Mrs. James H. Council of Texas, Tom Murray of Oklahoma and Horace Murray of Tolar, Texas.