Survivor of the ill fated Donner Party.Son of Jerimiah Byrd Murphy and Levinah Jackson-Murphy.Married Catherine Foster-Williams and had several children including ..John R. Murphy,Mary Naomi Murphy-Prince,Geneva Murphy and Emmanuel Byrd Murphy.He was a soldier in the Civil war.He was the only donner party survivor to stay in Tennessee.
Survivor of the ill fated Donner Party.Son of Jerimiah Byrd Murphy and Levinah Jackson-Murphy.Married Catherine Foster-Williams and had several children including ..John R. Murphy,Mary Naomi Murphy-Prince,Geneva Murphy and Emmanuel Byrd Murphy.He was a soldier in the Civil war.He was the only donner party survivor to stay in Tennessee.
Gravesite Details
In my initial research I discovered that the resting place was on thier Uncle Angus's property in the garden (called Tomilson cemetary)and that all tombstones were trampled down by cows.Do not know if any headstone for him existed.
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