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Note: Leroy Kingery (lkingery@coffey.com) on Ancestry site 44182 provided the names of James's parents, their birthdata, and the names of two of his and Elizabeth's children. He also has several generations of the Murrays on his sites. Ancestry.com's "Gene Pool Individual Records- Births and Marriages" has the birthdates and birthstates of Elizabeth's husband, his parents, his siblings, and his two children. I learned afterwards that all the data on the Murray family in this Gene Pool came from LDS's Pedigree Resource File and IGI/North America. Note: This Gene Pool has nothing about Elizabeth's ancestors which I have elsewhere on Rootsweb.com.
Date and full location of James's birth, the names of his parents, spouse, and of two children were found on the Rootsweb site of Dan Pierce (dptrack@ispwest.com) entitled "Wombacher Family Tree" [database 305796]).
Susan Carl (scarl49932@qmail.com) was able to look through James's military and pension files at the National Archives. She found that "he died in Sawtelle near LA - in an Old Soldiers Home on 27 May 1925. He was apparently sick his entire life and kept asking over and over again for his pension. ...He eventually got it but they kept denying it and saying ridiculous things like we need the name of the doctor in the military hospital who saw you during the war - WHEN all of this was in his military file. He was also taken prisoner at the Battle of Lexington on 18 Dec 1862. His occupation is listed as blacksmith and he was 18 when he enlisted. He enlisted in Cincinnati on 23 Oct 1862. James was in Co E, 5th Regiment Ohio Cav. His pension record says he was born in Meigs Co and enlisted in Meigs, but his military record says he was born in Philadelphia. His brother Benjamin is one of his character witnesses, as is Elijah Vining, who said he shared a tent with him during the war and so knew his medical condition.
Children listed:
Leila b. 11 Jan 1878
George b. 2 March 1879
Clara b. Feb 26 1884
Sarah Elizabeth b. 24 Nov 1890 (another place he says 1891 and yet another
place 25 Nov)
James Ellsworth and John Ellison, twins b. 8 June 1894 (another place he says 1895)
PLACES WHERE HE LIVED:
There are affidavits asking for a pension from James from Sherman, Nebraska - 1890, Duchesne Co, Myton, Utah - 1915.
Other places he said he lived: Pomeroy from discharge till 1868, something like Faissons, Minn till 1869, Jackson, looks like Minn till 1877, Pomeroy to 1880, then back to Fimore Co, Minn til 1881 (these spellings could be wrong - it is hard to read the document), then Blair, Washington Co, Neb till 1881, until Sherman Co, Nebraska. Other documents list this is where he lived: Spring Valley, MN in 1877; Litchfield, Nebraska 1880; Olathe, CO 1896 and Myton, Utah 1914, and obviously LA, Calif.
He lists his daughter Clara as the next of kin in Buhl in 1925."
22 April 1877: Meigs County, Ohio marriage records have a Melissa E. Carl marrying James E. Murray this date, according to Susan Carl. Rhonda Rice provided his middle name as Ellsworth, from Catherine Carl Phillip's family records. Catherine was Elizabeth's niece, daughter of Leroy Carl, Elizabeth's brother. The word "Kansas" was entered after James and Elizabeth's names in the records. If they indeed moved to Kansas, we have not been able to substantiate it.
Dan Pierce (dptrack@prodigy.net) on rootsweb.com notes that James Ellison Murray went by [the nickname] Ell.
LETTER FROM NICHOLAS MICHAEL TO JAMES ELLISON MURRAY (sent to me by Kristin Smith, Ibid)
"Harrisonville Sep the 6 1878
Page 1:
"Dear brother and sister it is with pleasure that i seat myself down for the purpose of informeing you that we are well at present hopeing thess few lines wil find you all injoying the same blessing we receaved your kind letter and was glad to hear from you we got a letter from mag She said they were well She says that they are comeing to see us dave is well he is a going back with hur if she comes and seez her family pap and mother is well lib has been sick she had twin boys they are ded they were six months Emma sent you hur quilt pattern lib sends you hur love and best respects to you all
Page 2:
well lisey i will try and git that money from nate as soon as i can naney says for you to git lelas picture taken and send it for she wants to see whether it is as good looking as you say
well ell i am sorry that your wheat is not good i had one hundr bushels of wheat and forty bushes of oats well i must bring letter to a close for i can't think of much to rite from Nicholas Michael to James E. Murry rite soon hear is a peace of howards dress and of Evays dress"
Note: To the left of page 1 of the above letter, there are these family records:
"Nicholas Michael
Maried to Christena Carl
June the. 23.1870
Nicholas Michael Born December the 10.1845
Christena Michael Born February the.2.1848
Evay Jane Michael Born June the.23.1871
Howard Michael Born April the.26.1877"
Note: To the right of page 2 of the above letter, there are these family records:
"Family Record
Wilson Carl Born March 1.1817
Elizabeth Carl Born December 24.181? [illegible; on a dark crease in the letter]
Margaret Carl Born April 11.1838
Mary J. Carl...............March 10.1839
John W. Carl..............July 9.1841
Daniel M. Carl...........July 9.1841
Barbara E. Carl.........April.14.1843
Christian Carl............April.25.1844
Nathan C. Carl...........October.26,.1845
Benton Carl.................January.11.1847
Leroy Carl...................January.11.1847
Wilson Carl.................May.2. 1851
David A. Carl..............October.2.1852
Jonathan Carl..............January 24.1854
Elizabeth M. Carl........February.6.1856
Ames Carl.....................February.6.1856
Stephen Carl.................March.1.1860"
Note 1: The one name missing in the above list on page 2 is Christena's, whose name and birthdate are on page 1.
Note 2: All the birthdates above match the ones typed by the late Lorena Washeck years ago, believed copied from Bible records, except for Wilson Jr. Lorena had his birthdate as 1848 instead. Lorena also had Wilson Sr.'s wife Elizabeth's birthdate as December 24, 1816.
Note 3: The big surprise was Elizabeth Melissa's twin's name being given above as Ames Carl. Lorena had had it as Murray Carl. It is not spelled as Amos; it could possibly be Amas, but looks most like Ames.
1880 Minnesota, Fillmore, Bloomfield Census, P. 466B:
James E. Murray, 33, farmer, b OH, father b OH, mother b VA;
Elizabeth M. Murray, 24, b OH, both parents b OH;
Lelia Murray, 2 b MN;
George Murray, 1, b MN.
Note: Leroy Kingery, Ibid, wrote that while James and his family were in eastern MN, whereas the Wombachers came from Pipestone which is western MN.
Susan Carl (scarl49932@qmail.com) found the names J. E. Murray and of his brother John Murray among the farmers in the link www.rootsweb.com/~nesherma/litcfarmhtm to the Nebraska STATE GAZETTEER Business Directory and Farmers List for 1890-1891:
"Omaha:
J. M. Wolfe & Co., Publisher, 509-510 Paxton Block 1890
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year of 1890,
by M. M. Wolfe & Co, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
Sherman County Farmers List
Litchfield is in the western part of Sherman county, in the Muddy Creek valley, 18 miles from Loup City, and 47 miles northwest from Grand Island, on the branch of the B.& M. R.R., from Nebraska City to Newcastle, Wyoming. The place has a population of 300 who are manifesting considerable enterprise, which is evidenced by roller mills, elevator, two banks, etc. There are also two churches -- Methodist and Presbyterian -- a G.A.R. post and a lodge of A.O.U.W. The local newspaper is the Litchfield Moniter, E.R. Bradley, publisher. "
Leroy Kingery (lkingery@coffey.com) wrote me that while James's four youngest children were born, his sister Virginia Wombacher and her family were also "in Nebraska, settling there for about 7 years. According to information by my grandmother they finally gave up and moved on because of drought, arriving in Colorado (Lafayette) just prior to 1900 where my great grandmother Virginia Murray Wombacher died. Then the family moved on to Encampment WY in 1898 I believe."
1890 census: Leroy Kingery, Ibid, wrote that by this census time, James and his family, and Virginia and her family were all in Colorado, but quite far separated.
8 May 1897: According to Leroy Kingery, Ibid, James's sister, Virginia, died from childbirth complications, and James's son, George, travelled far to be at her side when she was dying.
1900 Colorado, Montrose Co, California Mesa Precinct 10, P. 254B:
James E. Murray, 52, farmer, b Feb 1848, b OH, married 23 years, both parents b OH;
Elizabeth M. Murray, 48, b Feb 1857, b OH, married 23 years, had had 7 children of whom 5 are living, both parents b OH;
Lela Murray, 26, b Jan 1874, b MN;
George Murray, 21, b March 1879, b MN;
Clara Murray, 16, b Feb 1884, b Neb;
Sarah E. Murray, 9, b Nov 1890, b Neb;
James E. Murray, 5, b Jan 1894, b Neb.
James and Elizabeth's daughter, Lelia Coon, died before the 1910 census.
1910 Colorado, Montrose Co, Precinct 8 Census, P. 151B:
James E. Murray, 64, farmer, b OH, parents both b VA, married 30 years;
Elizabeth Murray, 54, b OH, parents both b OH, married 30 years;
George Murray, 30, farmer, b MN;
James Murray, 15, , farmer, b MN;
Maria Coon, granddaughter, 7 b Colorado, both parents b Wisconsin;
Nettie Coon, granddaughter, 6, b Colorado, both parents b Wisconsin.
18 March 1918: James and Elizabeth's son, James E. Murray, died in Buhl, Twin Falls Co, Idaho this date.
4 June 1918: James's wife, Elizabeth Melissa, died, a suicide.
15-16 Jan 1920 Idaho, Twin Falls, Buhl Census, P. 52A:
Charles Dearing, HH, 34, b IN to parents both b IN, ditch rider for a canal company;
Clara Dearing, 35, b NE to parents both b OH;
Orville Wade Dearing, son, 14, b CO;
Opal Loraine Dearing, daughter, 5, b CO;
Marie Coon, niece, 17, b CO to father b OH and mother b IN;
J. E. Murray, father-in-law, 72, widower, b OH to father b OH and mother b VA.
27 May 1925: Susan Carl, Ibid, found James's date and location of death in his military and pension files.
Los Angeles National Cemetery which is a United States National Cemetery in West Los Angeles Co, California (site found by Susan Carl (scarl49932@hotmail.com): Murray, James E, d. 05/27/1925, E 5TH OH CAV, Plot: 26 2 ROW E, * ["Some Web sites have obtained copies of the verified and unverified records and are publishing them online. Interment.net is currently incorporating them and has marked all unverified records with an asterisk (*)."] Pictures of the cemetery, the entrance to which is at the corner of Wiltshire Blvd. and Sepulveda Blvd. in West Los Angeles, are online.
18 Aug 1925: James and Elizabeth's daughter, Clara, died in Twin Falls, Idaho this date. (Twin Falls [LDS] Genealogy Library.)
9/22/2006: Kristin Smith (dwmksmith@earthlink.net) snail-mailed me 13 copies of pictures of members of this family, including one of James and Elizabeth Melissa together, and one of Elizabeth when she was older. I have put these on www.ancientfaces.com.
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