Red River County, TX - obituary - Tom Murphy **************************************************************** Contributed by Don R. Brownlee Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************** 21 March 1899 Dallas Morning News, p. 8 MURPHY – Clarksville, Tex., March 19 – Tom Murphy, aged 7, grandson of Col. N. B. Patton, died yesterday of meningitis after an illness of only nine hours. This is the second fatal case of this disease here.