William Murry Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: William Murry: was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was married to Jane Mills. In 1818 or 1820 he, with his wife and two children, William C. and James, came to now Hancock County, West Virginia, and settled in Poe District, where Murry's Mills now stand, where he remained until in the fall of 1833, then sold his mill property to his son William C. and moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, where he remained until his death. His wife died in 1833. And he was married again to Margaret Latimer, who is still living at the age of eighty years.