Dade County, Missouri Biographies-Marshall C. MURRAY

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889.  
Published by Goodspeed, Pgs. 832, 833

Marshall C. Murray, a stock-dealer and farmer of Grant Township, Dade 
County, Mo., and the son of Judge John and Sarah (Lettreal) Murray, was
born in McMinn County, Tenn., in 1831.  The parents were natives of 
North Carolina, the father born in 1799, and the mother in 1796.  They
were married in Tennessee in 1819, and afterward moved to Greene County,
Mo., being among the first settlers of Southwest Missouri.  Mrs. Murray
died there in about 1844, and Judge Murray in about 1866.  He was a farmer
and stock-raiser for many years, and was also judge of the county court 
of Greene County, Mo.  He served on the frontier in removing the Indians 
at an early day.  He and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church.  His father, William Alexander Murray, was born in North Carolina, 
and died in Tennessee.  He was of French origin, and was a soldier in the 
War of 1812.  His grandfather was a Frenchman.  Mrs. Sarah (Lettreal) 
Murray was of Scotch-French descent and the daughter of Lewis Lettreal, 
who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and died in Tennessee.  
Marshall C. Murray was the fifth of nine children, six sons and three 
daughters, and was reared in Greene County, Mo., from four years of age.  
He received a very limited education, owing to the scarcity of schools, 
and in 1858 he was united in marriage to Miss Frances Jane, daughter of 
Zachariah and Eliza Jane Sim, then of Greene County, Mo., where Mrs. 
Murray was born.  Her parents were formerly form Tennessee.  Mrs. Murray 
died October 25, 1886, leaving nine children, seven sons and two daughters.
Mr. Murray lived in Greene County, Mo., until 1878, when he came to Dade 
County, Mo., and settled on his present farm, which then consisted of wild
prairie land.  He now has 490 acres of well improved land, all the result
of his own efforts, and is one of the prominent agriculturists and 
stock-raisers of the county, having followed this business fro the last 
fifteen years.  During the late war he was in the Confederate Army, 
Company C, of Campbell's Battalion of Missouri, and operated in Southwest
Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi.  He was captured at Big Black Bridge,
Miss., in the spring of 1864, was taken to Camp Morton, Ind., and a few 
weeks later to Fort Delaware, where he remained a few months. He was then
taken to Point Lookout, on Chesapeake Bay, where he was held about three
months before peace was declared, and then returned home after four years
of hardship and suffering.  He was in the battle of Pea Ridge, Corinth, 
Grand Gulf, and was in the fights at Iuka, etc. Politically a Democrat, 
his first presidential vote was for Franklin Pierce, in 1852, and for 
nearly every Democratic candidate since.  He has been a member of Lodge 
No. 101, of the A. F. & A. M., at Springfield, since twenty-two years 
of age, is a Master Mason, and has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, for about thirty years.  Four of his children are, and 
Mrs. Murray was also a member of the same church.

====================================================================
     USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing
         free information on the Internet, data may be used by
         non-commercial entities, as long as this message
         remains on all copied material. These electronic
         pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit
         or for presentation by other persons or organizations.

         Persons or organizations desiring to use this material
         for purposes other than stated above must obtain the
         written consent of the file contributor.

         This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb
         Archives by: Kay Griffin Snow <kgsno@primary.net>
====================================================================