Mary Reiling Murphy (1847-1885)

REILING, MURPHY

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 11/30/2009 at 23:12:19

Bellevue Leader, November 19, 1885, reprinted in the Jackson Sentinel, November 21, 1885.

Mary Murphy-

A thick gloom darkened the social atmosphere of Bellevue last Thursday morning when the announcement came that Mrs. Mary Murphy, wife of Mr. J. C. Murphy had breathed her last the night before. No person who ever died in Bellevue was ever more sincerely mourned for than Mrs. Murphy, For ten years previous to her death the anxious inquiry after the state of her condition, which was known to be desperate, was on everybody’s lips, so highly was she esteemed by her many friends. Mrs. Mary Murphy, whose maiden name was Mary Reiling, daughter of our esteemed townsman, Capt. Andy Reiling, was born in Tete des Mortes township December 24th, 1847.