Murray, Edward

MURRAY

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 16:24:05

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.704

MURRAY, EDWARD, retired farmer, Richland Township, Sec. 13; P. O. Hartford; born in Baltimore, Md., in 1807, and raised there till 22 years of age, when he came to Richland county, Ohio, where he lived till 1850, when he came to this county, and bought 400 acres of land in Marion county, and went there and lived three years, and returned to this county. He built a saw mill at an expense of $4,000, which he run for about ten years. He has been twice married: first, in Baltimore county, Md., in 1830, to Miss Elzabeth Walter, who died in 1833, and left two sons: Jacob and Joshua; he was married a second time in 1833, to Elizabeth Dennis, in Ohio; her father is now living, 92 years of age; by this union they have three children living: Ezra D., Angeline, and Barbara E., and seven deceased.