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TO AUNT SISSIE'S MURR FAMILY LAND A TRIBUTE TO JEREMIAH MURR & RACHEL CLICK Photo of Jeremiah Murr & Rachel Click contributed by our cousin, Carol Boykin THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE ALL BEEN PROVIDED BY MY COUSIN NANCY HELVEY. (Click here to email her) YOU CAN VIEW HER LINEAGE ON THE FAMILY GROUP SHEET PAGE, FAMILY GROUP RECORD NO. 719 (Click here to view that page) WELCOME TO LOCATED IN TEXAS CO. MISSOURI THE MURR'S WERE A RESOURCEFUL FAMILY. THEY HOMESTEADED IN TEXAS CO. MISSOURI ABOUT 1869, AFTER SPENDING ABOUT 6 YEARS IN ANNIE, UNION CO., ILLINOIS, HAVING LEFT MONROE COUNTY, TENNESSEE IN 1863 DURING THE CIVIL WAR. THEY BUILT A 2 STORY LOG HOUSE, WHICH NO LONGER EXISTS, AND HAD THIS ROAD NAMED AFTER THEM, ALONG WITH A CHURCH, CEMETERY, & SCHOOL. MANY MEMBERS AND DESCENDANTS OF THIS FAMILY ATTENDED THESE FAMILY CENTERS FOR CHURCH, WEDDINGS, FUNERALS AND EDUCATION. MANY OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS JOINED THEM IN TEXAS COUNTY FROM MONROE CO. TENNESSEE AND ARE BURIED IN THE CEMETERY. MANY OF THEIR DESCENDANTS & ALLIED FAMILIES DESCENDANTS STILL RESIDE IN TEXAS COUNTY AS WELL. NANCY HELVEY'S LINE INTERMARRIED WITH THE SISTER OF RACHEL CLICK MURR, DORCAS CLICK DENTON. MANY OF OUR FAMILY MEMBERS MARRIED THEIR COUSINS, LEAVING US A LEGACY OF COUSINS TO THEMSELVES!!! NOT UNCOMMON IN MANY OF OUR FAMILY LINES. SURE MAKES GENEALOGY INTERESTING WHEN TRYING TO SORT IT ALL OUT. Jeremiah Murr & Rachel Click's son, >William Murr/Lucinda Hinkle daughter,> Laura Anna Murr married Alpherd Denton & Dorcas Click's son, >Jackson Denton/Nancy Ann Ragsdale's son,> Alfred Edward Denton. Did ya get all that???? Yes, they're cousins!!! Rachel & Dorcas were sisters and the daughters of HENRY JACKSON CLICK & RUTH _____, sisters of my William Columbus/Monroe Click. Front Row: (L to R) William Murr, Arthur Felix, Lucinda Hinkle Murr Back Row: William Albert, Effie, Lucinda, Minnie All of the children of William Murr & Lucinda Hinkle, with exception of Rosa Elizabeth & Ira Houston (No names on picture) However, Laura Anna Murr front row left. The following photographs are the family members of Laura Anna Murr (3rd child of William Murr and Lucinda Hinkle) & Alfred Edward Denton (son of Jackson Denton & Nancy Ann Ragsdale, click here for their photo) & their descendants. Front Row: Alfred Edward Denton (son of Jackson Denton & Nancy Ragsdale); on lap Gertie; Lou Ella (NANCY HELVEY'S LINE); Laura Anna Murr Denton; on lap Bertha Back Row: John Freeman, husband of Dorcas " Bettie" Denton who is sister of Alfred Edward Denton; James Jackson Denton; Dorcas "Bettie" Denton. Taken about 1904. Wedding photograph of James Jackson Denton (oldest child of Alfred Edward Denton & Laura Anna Murr) and wife, Cecil M. Atherton. They are buried in the Number One Cemetery, Huggins, Texas Co. MO. Bertha Denton (2nd child of Alfred Edward Denton & Laura Anna Murr) with husband, Marion Hutsell and baby Eula Hutsell Nancy Helvey's grandparents, Homer Frey & Lou Ella Denton (3rd child of Alfred Edward Denton & Laura Anna Murr) taken 25 July 1914 (My what happy faces!!!) Wedding picture of Gertrude Denton "Little Gertie" (4th child & last of Alfred Edward Denton & Laura Anna Murr) and husband Wiley Kinser Alfred Edward Denton & Laura Anna Murr in later years with grandchildren CHILDREN OF SUSAN JANE MURR (4th child of William Murr and Lucinda Hinkle) who married GEORGE C. LEIGHTY. Children: Clarence, Oliver, Charles, Minnie & Ray (twins), Anna, & unknown RENA MAE MURR (5th child of William Murr and Lucinda Hinkle) and husband, HAMPTON GADDIS THE MURR FAMILY CLAN FOR SURE. Photograph of wedding of EFFIE MURR (8th child of William Murr and Lucinda Hinkle) and EVERETT J. KELLEY. Married 24 March 1907, Huggins, Texas Co. MO THE MURR SCHOOL as it stands today in Texas Co. MO. The chalk boards are still intact. It sits on land next to the Warren Ragsdale farm, who is grandson of Edward Grief Ragsdale and Sarah Elizabeth Pesterfield. Edward Grief is brother to Nancy Ann Ragsdale who married Jackson Denton, son of Alpherd Denton and Dorcas Click. (I took photo on my recent trip to Texas Co. MO, such a lovely place to visit) Inside the MURR CHURCH in Texas Co. MO. It stands today next to the MURR CEMETERY. Many a family gathering took place in this historic little church. It definitely would be an asset to have it preserved on the National Register of Historic Places. VISIT THE MURR CEMETERY RECORDS (click here) IN TEXAS CO. MO done by our cousins, Carol Boykin & her sister I want to add my BIG THANKS to Carol Boykin for taking me around the beautiful Texas Co. MO on my visit this spring. I never would have found this cemetery and other great sites she took me to visit. She was a great hostess & a barrel of laughs, along with her husband, Lee. I greatly enjoyed my visit to their home and Texas Co. ANOTHER ONE OF OUR GREAT CUZ'S IN COMMON. Carol is descended through Jeremiah Murr and Rachel Click Jeremiah & Rachel's final resting place in the MURR CEMETERY, Texas Co. MO, after their long journey from Washington County, Tennessee>Cocke Co. Tenn>Monroe Co. Tenn>Annie, Union Co. Illinois>Texas Co. MO. A long, historic, and hard journey they endured, travel being difficult and treacherous, building and rebuilding as they pressed Westward. Living through the Pioneer days of settling America, they have left a long legacy of descendants East to West in the good ole USA. WITHOUT THE HELP OF NANCY HELVEY AND CAROL BOYKIN, THIS PAGE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE. MY GRATEFUL GRATITUDE EXTENDS TO THEM BOTH FOR THEIR SUPPORT IN HELPING ME ADD OUR FAMILY HISTORY TO THIS WEBSITE. THANKS CUZ'S!!! Jonathon Bowser Graphics Collection by 1900's Images by You're theto visit this page BACK HOME EMAIL COPYRIGHT 1999 CAROLYN WHITAKER 24 MAY 1999 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TO AUNT SISSIE'S
MURR FAMILY LAND
A TRIBUTE TO
JEREMIAH MURR &
RACHEL CLICK
Photo of Jeremiah Murr & Rachel Click
contributed by our cousin, Carol Boykin
THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE ALL BEEN PROVIDED BY MY COUSIN NANCY HELVEY. (Click here to email her)
YOU CAN VIEW HER LINEAGE ON THE FAMILY GROUP SHEET PAGE, FAMILY GROUP RECORD NO. 719 (Click here to view that page)
WELCOME TO
LOCATED IN TEXAS CO. MISSOURI
THE MURR'S WERE A RESOURCEFUL FAMILY. THEY HOMESTEADED IN TEXAS CO. MISSOURI ABOUT 1869, AFTER SPENDING ABOUT 6 YEARS IN ANNIE, UNION CO., ILLINOIS, HAVING LEFT MONROE COUNTY, TENNESSEE IN 1863 DURING THE CIVIL WAR.
THEY BUILT A 2 STORY LOG HOUSE, WHICH NO LONGER EXISTS, AND HAD THIS ROAD NAMED AFTER THEM, ALONG WITH A CHURCH, CEMETERY, & SCHOOL. MANY MEMBERS AND DESCENDANTS OF THIS FAMILY ATTENDED THESE FAMILY CENTERS FOR CHURCH, WEDDINGS, FUNERALS AND EDUCATION. MANY OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS JOINED THEM IN TEXAS COUNTY FROM MONROE CO. TENNESSEE AND ARE BURIED IN THE CEMETERY. MANY OF THEIR DESCENDANTS & ALLIED FAMILIES DESCENDANTS STILL RESIDE IN TEXAS COUNTY AS WELL.
NANCY HELVEY'S LINE INTERMARRIED WITH THE SISTER OF RACHEL CLICK MURR, DORCAS CLICK DENTON. MANY OF OUR FAMILY MEMBERS MARRIED THEIR COUSINS, LEAVING US A LEGACY OF COUSINS TO THEMSELVES!!! NOT UNCOMMON IN MANY OF OUR FAMILY LINES. SURE MAKES GENEALOGY INTERESTING WHEN TRYING TO SORT IT ALL OUT.
Jeremiah Murr & Rachel Click's son, >William Murr/Lucinda Hinkle daughter,> Laura Anna Murr married Alpherd Denton & Dorcas Click's son, >Jackson Denton/Nancy Ann Ragsdale's son,> Alfred Edward Denton. Did ya get all that???? Yes, they're cousins!!!
Rachel & Dorcas were sisters and the daughters of HENRY JACKSON CLICK & RUTH _____, sisters of my William Columbus/Monroe Click.
Front Row: (L to R) William Murr, Arthur Felix, Lucinda Hinkle Murr
Back Row: William Albert, Effie, Lucinda, Minnie
All of the children of William Murr & Lucinda Hinkle, with exception of Rosa Elizabeth & Ira Houston (No names on picture) However, Laura Anna Murr front row left.
The following photographs are the family members of Laura Anna Murr (3rd child of William Murr and Lucinda Hinkle) & Alfred Edward Denton (son of Jackson Denton & Nancy Ann Ragsdale, click here for their photo) & their descendants.
Front Row: Alfred Edward Denton (son of Jackson Denton & Nancy Ragsdale); on lap Gertie; Lou Ella (NANCY HELVEY'S LINE); Laura Anna Murr Denton; on lap Bertha Back Row: John Freeman, husband of Dorcas " Bettie" Denton who is sister of Alfred Edward Denton; James Jackson Denton; Dorcas "Bettie" Denton. Taken about 1904.
Wedding photograph of James Jackson Denton (oldest child of Alfred Edward Denton & Laura Anna Murr) and wife, Cecil M. Atherton. They are buried in the Number One Cemetery, Huggins, Texas Co. MO.
Bertha Denton (2nd child of Alfred Edward Denton & Laura Anna Murr) with husband, Marion Hutsell and baby Eula Hutsell
Nancy Helvey's grandparents, Homer Frey & Lou Ella Denton (3rd child of Alfred Edward Denton & Laura Anna Murr) taken 25 July 1914 (My what happy faces!!!)
Wedding picture of Gertrude Denton "Little Gertie" (4th child & last of Alfred Edward Denton & Laura Anna Murr) and husband Wiley Kinser
Alfred Edward Denton & Laura Anna Murr in later years with grandchildren
CHILDREN OF SUSAN JANE MURR (4th child of William Murr and Lucinda Hinkle) who married GEORGE C. LEIGHTY. Children: Clarence, Oliver, Charles, Minnie & Ray (twins), Anna, & unknown
RENA MAE MURR (5th child of William Murr and Lucinda Hinkle) and husband, HAMPTON GADDIS
THE MURR FAMILY CLAN FOR SURE. Photograph of wedding of EFFIE MURR (8th child of William Murr and Lucinda Hinkle) and EVERETT J. KELLEY. Married 24 March 1907, Huggins, Texas Co. MO
THE MURR SCHOOL as it stands today in Texas Co. MO. The chalk boards are still intact. It sits on land next to the Warren Ragsdale farm, who is grandson of Edward Grief Ragsdale and Sarah Elizabeth Pesterfield. Edward Grief is brother to Nancy Ann Ragsdale who married Jackson Denton, son of Alpherd Denton and Dorcas Click. (I took photo on my recent trip to Texas Co. MO, such a lovely place to visit)
Inside the MURR CHURCH in Texas Co. MO. It stands today next to the MURR CEMETERY. Many a family gathering took place in this historic little church. It definitely would be an asset to have it preserved on the National Register of Historic Places.
VISIT THE MURR CEMETERY RECORDS (click here) IN TEXAS CO. MO done by our cousins, Carol Boykin & her sister I want to add my BIG THANKS to Carol Boykin for taking me around the beautiful Texas Co. MO on my visit this spring. I never would have found this cemetery and other great sites she took me to visit. She was a great hostess & a barrel of laughs, along with her husband, Lee. I greatly enjoyed my visit to their home and Texas Co. ANOTHER ONE OF OUR GREAT CUZ'S IN COMMON. Carol is descended through Jeremiah Murr and Rachel Click
Jeremiah & Rachel's final resting place in the MURR CEMETERY, Texas Co. MO, after their long journey from Washington County, Tennessee>Cocke Co. Tenn>Monroe Co. Tenn>Annie, Union Co. Illinois>Texas Co. MO. A long, historic, and hard journey they endured, travel being difficult and treacherous, building and rebuilding as they pressed Westward. Living through the Pioneer days of settling America, they have left a long legacy of descendants East to West in the good ole USA.
WITHOUT THE HELP OF NANCY HELVEY AND CAROL BOYKIN, THIS PAGE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE. MY GRATEFUL GRATITUDE EXTENDS TO THEM BOTH FOR THEIR SUPPORT IN HELPING ME ADD OUR FAMILY HISTORY TO THIS WEBSITE. THANKS CUZ'S!!!
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