Ancestors
Emmett B. Murphy
1879-1962
Born 1879
Died 1962
Father: Sarah Elizabeth Murphy
Children include Jessie
Emmett B. Murphy was born on 15 April 1879. He married Etta Sims, born on 2 December 1886, a daughter of the Rev. A. A. Sims and his wife Josephine, and they raised their family in Butler County, Alabama. Their children were Lucy, born in 1909, Annie in 1910, Jessie Mae in 1914, Vurtice Vernice in 1917 and James Earl in 1920.
His mother was Sarah Elizabeth Murphy, called Betty, born in Butler County in 1849. In 1920 Emmett, 40, was head of a household in the Starlington precinct of Butler County. Betty, 70, lived with him, along with Etta, 33, and their daughters Lucy, 12, Annie, 9, Jessie Mae, 6, and Vurtice, 3. Betty died in 1922 and is buried in the same cemetery as her son, under a plain stone that reads "Betty Murphy". In 1940 Emmett, 60, was living with a married daughter's family in Conecuh County.
Emmett B. Murphy died on 11 December 1962, aged 83. He is buried in Shackleville Cemetery in Butler County, under a gray granite stone carved with the name MURPHY between two columns: "Emmett B. / Apr. 15, 1879 / Dec. 11, 1962". Etta outlived him by four years and lies beside him.
Children
Jessie Mae Murphy (1914-2017)
Sources
Find a Grave, memorial 19792178, photograph added by April D. Sandley, 9 June 2007.
Obituary of Jessie Mae Godwin, February 2017, naming her parents Emmitt and Etta Murphy, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 176323054; Find a Grave memorial 19792178, gravestone photograph added by April D. Sandley, 9 June 2007; Find a Grave memorial 19799664 (Sarah Elizabeth Murphy)
United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007, James Earl Murphy; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:6K7M-YCWJ.
United States census, 1920, Butler County, Alabama, Starlington Precinct 1, enumeration district 17, sheet 15A, line 39, household 280; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:MXCT-7VX.
Obituary of Jessie Mae Godwin, February 2017, naming her parents Emmitt and Etta Murphy, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 176323054; Find a Grave memorial 19792178, gravestone photograph added by April D. Sandley, 9 June 2007; Find a Grave memorial 19799664 (Sarah Elizabeth Murphy); United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files, James Earl Murphy, naming his parents Emmitt Murphy and Etta M. Sims, ark 61903/1:1:6K7M-YCWJ; United States census 1920, Butler County, Alabama, Starlington, household 280, FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:MXCT-7VX; United States census 1940, Conecuh County, Alabama, Election Precinct 8, ark 61903/1:1:V1LG-15S
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