Death of Mrs. Gov. Murrah, 1868 - Smith Co, TX

Contributed by Vicki Betts <Vicki_Betts@mail.uttyl.edu>
August 11, 2002

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TEXAS REPUBLICAN [MARSHALL], December 18, 1868, p. 2, c. 4

Death of Mrs. Gov. Murrah.—We were surprised and pained at the 
following editorial notice, which we clip from the Tyler Index of 
the 12th. Here where the deceased so long resided, it will be read 
with melancholy interest.

We are pained to have to record the death of Mrs. S. E. Murrah, 
widow of the late Ex-Governor Murrah, deceased, who died at the 
residence of Judge Samuel Earle, near this place, on Tuesday, 
evening, the 9th inst. Mrs. Murrah was taken ill on the evening 
of the Saturday previous, and although the best medical skill of 
the city was called to her aid, the ravages of the disease was so 
rapid that it was found almost impossible to do anything to 
mitigate or release her sufferings. How uncertain is life and how 
certain is death?