Frederick Stephen Murrell (1942)
BARCROFT, CHAMNEY, MACUMBER, MURRELL, PALMER, PLATT, PETERSON, THOMPSON
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 9/5/2006 at 08:53:06
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, September 9, 1942F. S. MURRELL DIED HERE ON TUESDAY
Native of England Lived in This County Nearly Half Century
Frederick S. Murrell, a citizen of Madison county for almost half a century, died at his home on South Eighth avenue in Winterset Tuesday. He was 81 years of age. He had been in failing helth for the past three years.
Mr. Murrell was a native of England, where he was born in London on July 8, 1861, the eldest son of George Frederick and Lettice Brown Chamney Murrell. As a small boy he came with his parents to the United States. They settled near Minneapolis, Minn.
As a young man he worked as a surveyer. Later he was a trainman on the Great Western and Northern Pacific railways. With the exception of eight years in St. Joseph, Mo., the past 45 years of his life had been spent in Madison county. He lived on a farm here for several years, and in 1917 moved to town to follow the carpenter's trade.
Mr. Murrell was married to Miss Jennie Macumber of Madison county. They were the parents of three daughters: Mrs. Roy Platt and Mrs. Robert Barcroft of this county, and Mrs. Arthur Thompson of Des Moines. After the death of his first wife, he was married to Miss Lillian Palmer, also of this county, on Jan. 29, 1900. They were the parents of 10 children, four of whom died in infancy. Those surviving are a daughter, Mrs. H. N. Peterson of Denver; and five sons, G. E. Murrell of Jackson, Minn., O. C. Murrell of Oelwein, D. G. Murrell of Ogden, Phillip Dale Murrell of the United States navy, and Frederick P. Murrell of Kakoma, Colo.
In addition to his wife and the children, he leaves 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild; and three sisters and one brother in Minnesota.
Funeral services were held Wednesday from the Winterset Church of Christ, with which the deceased had been affiliated since 1917. The rites were in charge of the Rev. L. F. Davis, assisted by the Rev. Tom Foglesong. Burial was made in the Barney cemetery.
_________________________Coordinator's note: Middle name taken from his 1861 England Birth Registration.
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