Biographical Sketch of Thomas Murray, Greene County, Missouri, Boone 
Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Mr. Murray was born in McMinn County, Tennessee, July 8th, 1825.  He 
was educated in the common schools of Monroe County, Tennessee, and
followed the occupation of farming until his emigration to Arkansas in
1848.  He came to Greene County, Missouri, in December, 1850, and took 
up a tract of government land.  He sold out in the spring of 1852 and
crossed the plains to Oregon, and went from there to California and
followed mining for two years with varying success.  He then went back
to Tennessee and stayed a year and then returned to Greene County, 
Missouri, and purchased the place upon which he now resides, about two 
miles southeast of Ash Grove.  He has a fine farm of three hundred and
twenty acres in his home place, besides a tract of one hundred and
seventy-nine acres on Sac river.  Mr. Murray was married November 16,
1856, to Miss Nancy E. Small.  She died March 12, 1876.  Their union
was blessed with eight children, four of whom are now living.  Mr.
Murray was married the second time, December 3, 1876 to Miss Sarah, 
daughter of Edward West.  They have two children.  He and his wife are
consistent members of the Baptist Church.  In making a home for him-
self in Greene Mr. Murray endured many of the hardships of pioneer 
life, and now enjoys the profits of his early labors.  Mr. Murray's
father, Renne Murray, was a native of North Carolina, born May 25, 
1801.  His mother was Miss Annie Elliott.

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