• General Notes

  Ancestry.com Images Online, image 54
  1860 U.S. Census, Harrison Township, Pulaski County, Indiana, Post Office: Moorsburgh, 6 July 1860
  Line 30: h/h 229/229
  William Murphy, 25, Miller, $28.33/$300, b. Ohio
  Sarah E. [nee Slane] Murphy, 25, b. Indiana
  Nathan A. Murphy, 1, b. Indiana
  Line 33: h/h
  James M. Dunn, 21, Farm Laborer, $150, b. Indiana
  Martha E. [nee Murphy] Dunn, 17, b. Ohio
  William N. Dunn, 9 months, b. Indiana
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  1870 U.S. Census, Tippecanoe Township, Pulaski County, Indiana; Post Office: Monterey; 23 July 1870
  Line 29: h/h 164/142
  Benedict Meeks, 31, Farmer, $6300/$1000, b. Ohio
  Martha [nee Murphy] Meeks, 27, Keeping House, b. Ohio
  William Dunn, 10, b. Indiana
  Leroy Meeks, 9, b. Ohio
  Lewis Meeks, 2, b. Indiana
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  1880 U.S. Census, District 148, Tippecanoe Township, Pulaski County, Indiana; 08 June 1880
  Line 8: h/h 63/66
  Benjamin D. Meeks, 41, Farmer, b. Ohio; father b. Pennsylvania; mother b. Ohio
  Martha E. [nee Murphy] Meeks, 37, wife, Keeping House; b. Ohio; father b. Ohio; mother b. Virginia
  Elroy B. Meeks, 18, son, single, Laborer, b. Ohio  <1862>
  Lewis H. Meeks, 12, son, single, at home, b. Indiana  <1868>
  Hattie M. Meeks, 3, Daughter, single, at home, b. Indiana <1877>
  
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  1880 Federal Census, District 151, Harrison Township, Pulaski County, Indiana
  Enumeration date: 12 June 1880
  h/h 84/84
  Murphy, Martha [Martha Barbara Kerr, widow of Nathan Hunt Murphy], 73, keeping house; b. VA; parents b. VA
  Sarah Jane, 39, daughter, keeping house; b. OH; father b. OH; mother b. VA
  Dunn, William [Martha E. Murphy's son], 20, grandson, working on farm; b. IN; father b. KY; mother b. IN
  Graffis, Fannie [Mary A. Murphey's daughter], 12, granddaughter, at home; b. IN, father b. OH, mother b. IN
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  1900 U.S. Census, District 90, Tippecanoe Township, Pulaski County, Indiana; 14, 15 June 1900
  Line 6: h/h 149/149
  Dye Meek, Head, b. April 1836, 65, married 33 years, b. Ohio; father b. Pennsylvania; mother b. Ohio; Farmer; owns farm
  Martha E., wife, b. May 1843, 57, married 33 years; 5 children, 2 living, b. Ohio; father b. Ohio; mother b. Virginia
  Robert H., son, b. April 1868, 32, single, b. Indiana; parents b. Ohio; school teacher
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  1904 Pulaski County Vintage News
  http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpulask/VintageNews/1904-PulaskiCo.html
  Feb. 04, 1904
  Mrs. Meeks died Saturday shortly before noon.  Paralysis, coupled with uraemic poisoning caused her death. Her age was sixty years, eight months and sixteen days.  She came to this county during the forties, and has lived here ever since except a few years in Illinois.  Her first husband, James Dunn, died in 1865, and she was married in 1867 to Dye Meeks, who died a couple of years ago.  She leaves two children, Rev. W. N. Dunn of Rosedale [Parke County, Indiana] and R. H. Meeks of this county [Pulaski County, Indiana].  The funeral was held Monday at the M.E. church, services there by Rev. A. J. Waller being followed by burial on the hill.
  
  USGenNet Perpetual Calendar
  http://www.usgennet.org/usa/in/county/orange/petcal/2000.htm
  Saturday before February 4, 1904 = January 30, 1904
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  Born: 14 May 1843
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  "The Murphys According to Fannie Graffis"
  Early History by Hazel Kerk Murphy Wiesjahn
  
  [The author, Hazel, is the daughter of Nathan Archibald "Arch" Murphy and Mary E. "Mollie" Venard.  She is the granddaughter of William Kerr Murphy and Sarah Elizabeth Slane; and the great granddaughter of Nathan Hunt Murphy and Martha Barbara Kerr.]
  
  AUNT MARTHA
  
  Aunt Martha was not here very often. She had married young to James Dunn who soon died leaving one son Will.  Aunt M brought him home to live with G.G. and Aunt Mary untill he was old enough to go to college.  He worked his way through DePaw and became the only Methodist preacher in the family.
  
  His mother remarried but did not live near the rest of the folks.  She was small and had curly bangs.
  
  One summer she came home to visit the relatives spending two or three weeks at each home.  After she left we didn’t hear anything about her untill her death.
  
  It was quite an event one summer when Fan and Aunt Jane went to visit Will Dunn when he was preaching in Terre Haute.
  
  AUNT MARTHA -- WHO’S WHO
  
  The Author - Hazel Kerk Murphy, b. 1891; m. Henry Wiesjahn 1915; d. 1954; d/o Nathan Archibald Murphy and Mary Venard; sister of Clancy Kerr and Chase Murphy; Grand Aunt of Allan, Marilyn, Dave, and Sue Murphy; Great Grand Aunt of Ben & Clancy Murphy and Carmen Schlatter.
  
  Aunt Martha/Aunt M - Martha E. Murphy (Hazel’s grand aunt);  b. 14 May 1843 in Ohio; m. James M. Dunn, 1860; d/o Nathan Hunt Murphey & Martha Barbara Kerr; sister to Rachel Ann, William Kerr, Mary A. & Sarah Jane Murphy; mother of William N. Dunn.
  
  James Dunn - James M. Dunn, husband to Martha E. Murphy, b. 1839 in Indiana.  In 1860, twenty-one-year-old James, seventeen-year-old Martha E., and nine-month-old William N. Dunn are living next to the Grist Mill in Mooresburgh (Harrison Township, Pulaski County, Indiana) right next door to  Martha's twenty-five-year-old brother William Kerr, his wife Sarah Elizabeth Slane, and Baby "Arch" who is a year old.  Just up the road is the household of Martha E. and William Kerr Murphy's parents, Nathan Hunt Murphy and Martha Barbara Kerr.  Nathan and Martha Barbara's children still at home are Mary A. & Sarah Jane.  The Doud boys are boarding with the Nathan Hunt Murphy family.
  
  Will Dunn - William N. Dunn, son of Martha E. Murphy and James M. Dunn; b. October 1859.  He was a Methodist Episcopal Minister in the Indiana Northwest Conference from 1887 to 1900.  He had the Terre Haute-Montrose circuit from 1896 through 1898.
  
  Aunt Mary - Mary A. Murphy (Hazel’s grand aunt);  b. 1837/38 in Ohio; m. John Graffis 06 April 1865;  d/o Nathan Hunt Murphey & Martha Barbara Kerr; mother of "Lizzie," Lucy, Fannie, and Ed Graffis.
  
  G. G. - Great Grandmother, Martha Barbara Kerr, b. 1807 in Virginia; d. 1887 in Indiana
  
  Fan - Fannie Graffis was twelve years old in 1880 where she is listed on the Census in the same household as her grandmother, Martha Barbara Kerr.  Fannie is the daughter of Mary A. Murphy & John Graffis.
  
  Aunt Jane - Sarah Jane Murphy (Hazel’s grand aunt); b. 10 January 1841 in Staunton Township, Miami County, Ohio; d. 30 July 1922, Harrison Township, Pulaski County, Indiana.  She is the daughter of Nathan Hunt Murphey and Martha Barbara Kerr.  Sarah Jane never married.

Details of Martha E.'s family with James M. Dunn

Details of Martha E.'s family with Dye Meeks