Monroe County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Ward, Ann (Murphy) 
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Cemetery:           St. Patrick's (Oldest) Cemetery
Name:               Ann (Murphy) Ward

Date Of Photograph: July 2003
Photo can be seen at:
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In the oldest cemetery of St. Patrick's, at Exeter and Labo Roads near 
Carleton, Michigan, I found Ann's grave marked with stone with following 
inscription:

"Ann wife of John Ward
died April 6, 1874
Age 71 years "
(There was more writing, but it is unreadable.)

I could not locate the headstone of her husband John. 

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Also buried in the oldest cemetery of St. Patrick's, is a John Murphy, born 
abt. 1805 and died 1880. Mike Cunningham has found records that John Murphy 
was born in Monaghan County, Ireland. Although I know that Ann Murphy was born 
in Ireland, I do not know that she was born in Monaghan County.  I do know 
that her husband John Ward was born in Monaghan County. It seems very logical 
to presume that Ann was born in Monaghan County and that she met and married 
her husband John Ward there, before they immigrated to the United States. 

On the 1850 and 1860 censuses in Exeter, the household of John Murphy is very 
close to the household of Ann and John Ward. I think that there is a very good 
chance that John Murphy was a brother to Ann, but need a more information to 
support a connection. 

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