MURPHY, William Jefferson
Date of death: 5 Feb 1890 – Nineveh, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 14, 1890,
Volume XXX Number 34, page 1 column 3
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For the Democrat.
OBITUARY.
The subject of this sketch, Wm. Jefferson Murphy, was born in Greene County, Tennessee, June 20, 1809, and died at the home of his son-in-law, Daniel Britton, in Nineveh, Ind., February 5th, 1890.
At the age of 20 years he was united in marriage with Miss Jemima Stewart of Scott County, Virginia, with whom he lived happily until her death August 10, 1874. This union was blessed with five children, only two of whom are now living, Mrs. Daniel Britton, of Nineveh, Ind., and Rev. Thomas J. Murphy, of Oak Grove, Tennessee.
In the fall of 1865, he removed from his native state to Indiana and located at Kansas, Bartholomew County, where he lived until the death of his wife, since which time he resided with his son-in-law, Daniel Britton, of Nineveh. At an early age in life he professed a saving faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ, and cast his lot with the Christian people of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and lived a consistent Christian life until he fell asleep to awake in the likeness of Him whom he had served while on earth. After his removal to this state he did not remove his church membership, owing to the fact that he had almost entirely lost his hearing, but he still continued to love and serve Him “whom to know a right is life eternal.”
We would say to the friends and relatives who are left to mourn his loss, “Sorrow not as others who have no hope,” for if we believe in God’s promise we cannot believe other than that our dear departed friend is at last free from all earthly sorrows and now awaits the last judgement, when he shall hear the welcome voice of the Lord, saying, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joys of thy Lord.”
E.S.B.
Link to William Jefferson Murphy’s grave
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry