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Mary Susan PARKINSON

Female 1836 - 1898  (62 years)


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  • Name Mary Susan PARKINSON  [1, 2, 3
    Birth 1836  Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    • 1860, 1870 censuses say she was born in Pennsylvania. 1880 census and findagrave say she was born in Virgina.
    Gender Female 
    Reference Number 407 
    Death 28 Apr 1898  Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    • Buried in Old Highland Cemetery, Great Falls, Cascade, Montana. Findagrave Memorial# 64956819
    Person ID I407  scruggshovis
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

    Family Joseph MURPHY,   b. 1822, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Apr 1898, Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage Between 1852 and 1854 
    Children 
     1. Joseph Sinton MURPHY,   b. 18 Jan 1865, Platte, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Dec 1949, Missoula, Montana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)  [natural]
     2. Theodore P MURPHY,   b. 1865, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     3. Blanche MURPHY,   b. Abt 1855, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Feb 1906, Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 51 years)  [natural]
     4. Jodie M MURPHY,   b. Abt 1858, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Dec 1931, Montana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 73 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F144  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1836 - Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 28 Apr 1898 - Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • CENSUS: 1860 on ancestry.com. Mary Murphy, 24, b in Pennsylvania; living with Joseph 30, Annette 11, Blanche 5, Jode 2 Murphy and Clarles Hensley 2. location: Weston, Platte, Misouri. No(te: Mary is 2nd wife of Joseph.)

      CENSUS: 1870 on ancestry.com. Mary S Murphy, 34, b in Pennsylvania, occupation: keeps house; living with Joseph 41, Jodie M 12, Joseph S 9, TheodoreP.3 Murphy, Jacob Myers 35. location: Weston, Platte, Missouri.

      CENSUS: 1880 on familysearch.org. M.S. Murphy, 39, b in Virginia, occupation: keeping house, living with her children: B.20, Jodie18, J.S.16, T.P.13 Murphy and several boarders: F.P.Blair25, C.L.Harrison23, J.P.Payne22, W.P.Williams18, C.S.Banks3[sic], and two servants: S.Elllis42, MaryParker17. Location: Columbia, Boone, Missouri. (Note: the husband, Joseph, is not listed on the 1880 census but his obituary says he moved to Montana with his family in 1878. More research needed.)

      BURIAL 1898: Mary Murphy died April 28, 1898. Buried in Old Highland Cemetery, Great Falls, Cascade, Montana. Findagrave Memorial# 64956819

  • Sources 
    1. [S35] 1860 US Federal Census, Location: Weston, Platte, Missouri; Roll: M653_640; Page: 738; Image: 225; Family History Library Film: 803640. Found on Ancestry.com.

    2. [S7] 1870 US Federal Census, Location: Weston, Platte, Missouri; Roll: M593_799; Page: 511B; Image: 431; Family History Library Film: 552298. Found on ancestry.com.

    3. [S36] 1880 US Federal Census, Location: Columbia, Boone, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district ED 16, sheet 133A, NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 0676; FHL microfilm 1,254,67. Found on familysearch.org.

    4. [S92] Find a Grave Index.


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