Rufus James MURPHY

1838 - 1923  (84 years)

• Name	Rufus James MURPHY
  Birth	22 Apr 1838	Mississippi, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	9A0BF6EDF86E4B94A872D8E806BC2D4FE529
  Death	17 Feb 1923	Mississippi, USA   [1]
  Burial	Unity Cemetery, Caledonia, Lowndes County, Mississippi, USA   [1]
  Notes	Appeared in the 1910 US census with wife Nany E. His occupation was physician. From findagrave.com, Nov 2015: Civil War - CSA Rufus James Murphy was the son of Amzi D. and Martha Mayfield Murphy. Born and reared in home of his father on Wolf Road (at intersection with Buck Egger Road), where the old Murphy house still stands (1997). Trained in medicine at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans. Enlisted 6 May 1863 in Co. K of 14th Miss. Vols. where he served as assistant surgeon during the Civil War. After the war, he lived a number of years in the Shannon area of Lee County. He returned to Lowndes County around 1880 where he served as a family doctor in Caledonia for many years. He married Mary E. Gidden December 19, 1866, and Nancy E. Minter , daughter of Thomas J. and Susanna (Egger) Minter, May 5, 1897.
  Person ID	I7525	America
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2015

  
  

  Family	Nancy Minter,   b. 1857, Mississippi, USA d. 1930, Mississippi, USA (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	21 Apr 1897	Lowndes County, Mississippi, USA   [2]
  Family ID	F2925	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2015

  
  

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  [S66] findagrave.com, November 2014 and later. [S242] Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1935 at ancestry.com, May 2015.