Family Group Record


Husband: Stephen Murray
Born: ABT. 1774 Place: Burke County, Georgia
Died: 11 APR 1819 Place:
Married: ABT. 1798 Place:
Buried: Place:
Father: John Murray
Mother: Mary Kimball
Other Spouses:
Wife: Mary White
Born: ABT. 1778 Place:
Died: Place:
Buried: Place:
Father:
Mother:
Other Spouses:
Children

Child 1 (F): Marinda Murray 1
Born: Place: Georgia
Died: Place:
Buried: Place:
Spouses: Jacob Thompson
Child 2 (F): Matilda Murray 2
Born: Place:
Died: Place:
Buried: Place:
Spouses: Simeon Thompson
HUSBAND NOTES:
!BIOGRAPHY: Stephen Murray and his wife were two of thirteen founding members of Beech Branch Baptist Church which later became Sardis Baptist Church. He was Justice of the Peace in Burke County on 9 Jan 1817. He participated in the 1820 land lottery, winning lot number 60, 7th section of Gwinnett County, Georgia. He had died before the 1820 census and wife Mary was shown living next door to her father, Ezekiel White. In the 1821 land lottery Stephen Murray's orphans drew land lot number 144, 10th section of Monroe County, Georgia.

!PARENTS-BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-BIOGRAPHY: Alton Murray, KINDRED MURRAYS, published by author in St. Marys, GA. page 43, 52. (copies of this book are located in the Family History Library, Douglas, GA and Huxford Genealogical Library, Homerville, GA).

!PARENTS: Land Grant to Mary Murray in trust for her 2 sons, Timothy Murray and Stephen Murray, sons of her desceased husband John Murray a tract of land ....... in the said County of Burke, lying on Beech Branch near Briar Creek on her headright. (Alton Murray, KINDRED MURRAYS, page 40-41) / Note: This appears to be the grant recorded in Georgia Book LLL, page 369, for 200 acres in 1787.



WIFE NOTES:
!PARENTS-BIRTH-SPOUSE-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Alton Murray, KINDRED MURRAYS, published by author in St. Marys, GA. page 48-49. (copies of this book are located in the Family History Library, Douglas, GA and Huxford Genealogical Library, Homerville, GA).



SOURCES:
1Sarah H. Smith Fowler, Descendants of Nichodemus Thompson, Sr. and Related Families, Book.
2Sarah H. Smith Fowler, Descendants of Nichodemus Thompson, Sr. and Related Families, Book.


Posted By:
Tommy Bargeron
721 West 12th Street
Tifton, Georgia 31794

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