Buried:Murphey Family Cemetery, Stampers Creek Twp, Orange Co, IN
This was James Jeffrey Murphey's farm.
Service: Enlisted 1776 in
Capt. William Edmund's Co and Col. Edmunds' and Gaskin's VA Regts.
3rd and 4thVirginia Regts Transferred as Pvt to Gen.
Morgan's Rifle Regt In battle of Brandywine, at the taking of Burgoyne,
Monmouth, Jamestown, Eutaw Springs, at the surrender of Cornwallis Discharged
at Winchester, VA
Proof: Pension claim S. 35532
Married: (1st) ________ Newland
Children: Three
children. Youngest was Daniel, who served in the War of 1812.
Married: (2nd) Margaret _______.
Directions:Murphy Family
Cemetery Located about 1/4 mile or less behind the Ken Arnold Farmhouse
on the west side of 1019 S. Orange-Washington Co. Rd in Section 8-T IN. R. 2E
of Stampers Creek Twp., Orange County, IN. This cemetery is located just over a
mile south of State Hwy 56 near the Orange-Washington County Line. The cemetery
has a concrete wall around it which is about 4 ft. high.
Please
contact Ken Arnold at 1019 S. Orange-Washington County Rd, Orleans, IN
47452-9126 or call him at (812) 755-4756 for access to the cemetery.
Patriot George Henton is
also buried in this cemetery.
Collected by Mrs. N. B. Mavity, French
Lick, Indiana. Pictures were taken on 18 Oct. 2005. Pictures and directions
provided by Edward Hitchcock and Larry Hammersley who are members of the Daniel
Guthrie Chapter SAR in Bedford, IN.
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