Randolph County AlArchives Obituaries.....Murphy, Mary A.E. August 2, 1944
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Roanoke Leader
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary A. E. Murphy, age 103, will be conducted Friday 
afternoon at three o'clock from the Wedowee Methodist Church with the pastor, 
Rev. A. E. Doyle, officiating. Interment will be in the Masonic Cemetery, 
Quattlebaum's Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Murphy died at her home in Wedowee at 
eight o'clock Wednesday night at the age of 103 years, one month, and seven 
days. She was the oldest resident of Randolph County but was able on the last 
Sunday of June this year to take an interest in the annual birthday celebration 
at her home. She was born in Heard County Georgia, on June 27, 1841, the 
daughter of Ephriam and Lucindie McClendon West. For 45 years she had made her 
home in Wedowee, her husband, John C. Murphy, having died about 40 years ago. 
Mrs. Murphy is survived by one son, J. L. Murphy, of Malone; one daughter, Miss 
Lura Murphy, of Wedowee; and many other descendants reaching to the sixth 
generation.

Anniston Star
Mrs. Mary Murphy died at her home here last night at nine o'clock. She reached 
the advanced age of 103, having celebrated that event June 21 this year. She was 
a life-long resident of Wedowee. and had resided in the home where she died for 
more than fifty years. During the past fifty years she had been an invalid. She 
was twice married. No children survive by her first marriage. A son and a 
daughter survive by the last marriage. She was a member of the Methodist Church 
for more than three-quarter of a century. Funeral services will be held at the 
Wedowee Methodist Church Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Interment will be in 
the Masonic Cemetery.

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