Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....MURPHY, M. E. 1827 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Elizabeth Robertson lrober@plantationcable.net July 27, 2004, 10:25 am Author: S. EMMETT LUCAS, JR M. E. MURPHEY, farmer, Carrollton, Carroll Co., Ga., son of .William and Martha (Murphey) Murphey, was born 111 Talbot county, Ga., 111 1827. His father_was born in South Carolina, in 1798, came to Georgia when a a young man on pack horses, and settled in the woods in Wilkes county, where he cleared a farm. A few years afterward he removed to Talbot county, and thence to Sumter county, in 1836. He was a soldier in the Indian war of that date, and lived to be seventy-six years of age. Mr. Murphey's mother was a Murphey, who first married James Willis, who died, and then she married Mr. Murphey. M. E. Murphey was reared in Sumter county and educated in the historic dirt floor log school house, split log seats and mud and dirt chip:ll1ey,etc., and walked three miles... generally barefooted, to school. In 1861, he enlisted in what was known as the "Nelson Rangers," under Capt. Nelson, who was killed at Tupelo, Miss. and was succeeded by Capt. Ragland. He experienced some very hard and trying service, and was engaged in many very hot skirmishes, but although he kept in the field until the war ended, he escaped both wounds and capture. When he came out of the war all he had, he says, "was a spell of chills and fever and a horse." He first went to Coweta county and went to work on a farm with a vim, and remained there until 1883, when he moved into Carroll county, where he now owns a 600 acre well-improved farm, a beautiful home in Carrollton, and "cash in advance." Mr. Murphey was married in 1860 to Miss Sarah Kampson -born in South Carolina daughter of Peter and Mary' (Long) Kampson, natives of South Carolina who came to Georgia from that state in 1844. This union has been blessed with six children: Peter, Beulah, Jeffy, Katie, William J. and Lizzie. Mrs. Murphey, who was a member of the Lutheran church, died in 1892. Additional Comments: from the book, "Memoirs of Georgia", Historical and Biographical Sketches, published in 1896 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/bios/gbs50murphy.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb