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  2. Henry Charles Muff: Birth: 17 APR 1923. Death: 5 JUL 1984 in Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, PA, Hillview section

  3. Daniel Roy Muff: Birth: 23 JUN 1927 in Upper Darby, PA. Death: 20 SEP 2019 in Cardington, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States


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a. Note:   as an orphan so as a child I assumed she had no family.
 When I tracked down "aunt" Mame (no blood relation, her family raised Nan) she told me some interesting family facts, one being that Nan had a brother named Charles E Murray who went to Girard College for poor white fatherless boys. I wrote to the school and they sent me his application papers and as luck would have it, they listed the names of his parents, and hence, Nan's parents - Charles E Murray and Mary Kelly. It explained the circumstances of the elder Charles Murray's death and that he was buried in Mt Vernon Cemetery, Phila., PA.
 Finding Nan's parents was a high point and I figured I was lucky enough and would never be able to go back any further.
 Forward 25 years when I was looking through the papers again. I noticed Mt Vernon Cemetery and figured I should try and find it and did find it on the second try. The caretaker handed me an envelope from 1899 with Murray information. I wrote all the names down so I could research them when I got home and then went to look at the graves. Unfortunately there were no headstones, the caretaker said that was common, it wasn't for lack of money, there were many plots in the area without stones.
 When I got home I ordered death certificates for the Murrays in the plot and checked the census. Two of the death certificates that I received in the mail listed Norman Murray and Louisa Trumbauer as parents, with this information and the information from the census that confirmed those Murrays as siblings of Charles I was able to track Nan's family back to George Trumbauer born 1689. An unbelievable stroke of good luck.
  Philadelphia Census Records
 23 April 1910 ed 836, sheet 12a, line 149
 6914 Haverford Ave., 34th Ward
 Head of household is William Shaw, living with him is William Elliot, son-in-law and Regina Murray shown as adopted daughter age 10, place of birth PA
  Regina Muff (from an interview with Mame Elliott Smith, June 3, 1978, age 88)
 Aunt Mame said that Billy McFadden had a shoe repair shop across the street from the 69th Street Terminal (the terminal wasn't built there at the time). She went in the shop with her family to pick up some shoes and saw three children there. They asked Billy who the children were and he told them that they were an Irish woman's children and they needed a home. It ended up that the Elliott family took the youngest child, Regina, who was about six months old. There were three of them, Anna, Charles, and Regina. After a while a woman came to claim Regina from the Elliotts and Aunt Mame said the woman was drunk. They didn't know what to do so they went to their doctor for advice. The doctor's name might have been Dr. Engood. He told the woman not to try and take the baby or he would bring in the authorities and say she was unfit, all they would have to do would be to look at her in her condition (drunk), so the woman left. A while later Charles was looking for Regina, but he was looking for Regina Elliott and she always used the name Regina Murray, so he didn't find her right away. He was looking for her because he found out their real mother was in the hospital dying. Aunt Mame went to the hospital with them and was very upset about it, but Regina seemed unaffected because she really didn't know the woman. They found out at that time that Anna and Charles were in a home in Oxford and later Charles went to Girard College. Aunt Mame said that Charles is married, but doesn't know his whereabouts now. She said she always considered Jean (Regina) her sister and loved her very much, as did all the people who knew her.
  Aunt Mame said that she worked in the Wolfenden Mill and that she met her husband there. He walked through and saw her and asked people who she was and could he be introduced to her. They married and had 10 children. She thought very highly of David and James Wolfenden and named two sons after them. She said James Wolfenden (congressman) would always help her when she needed it.
 She said Indians used to live in Cardington near the bridge. Aunt Mame had long black hair to her waist and when she cut off the braids she gave them to the Indians to use in their ceremonies. She just asked them to burn the hair if they decided not to use the braids any more because her mother always told her if the birds found the hair and used it to make their nest you would get headaches. She said they must have burned it because she never got a headache.
  Henry Muff and Regina Murray ran away to Elkton, MD to get married and came back to tell Aunt Mame, whom Regina always lived with. Aunt Mame said "nothing doing" and they each went back to their own house. Later Jean (Regina) told Aunt Mame that Henry wanted her to live with him and help him take care of his mother who was blind, Aunt Mame said if he would have the marriage blessed by a priest it would be all right. Henry was protestant (Episcopal, St. George) and Regina was Catholic. So the marriage was blessed and they assumed married life.
  Aunt Mame then jumped ahead to when Jean became very ill with her heart attack, diabetic comas, leg amputation below the knee, and other troubles. Jean called for her so Aunt Mame moved in to help out. She said she had to leave because it was very trying and extremely exhausting emotionally to watch her deteriorate and slowly die. She said it was a very bad time in her life to watch someone so good go in that manner.
  From the Genealogical Research Department of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia - Baptismal record, December 13, 1899, Baptized privately Regina Murray, born December 3, 1899, Sponsor, Mrs Oliver, by Rev J P Monville.
Note:   Regina was called Nan by her grandchildren and she always told me she w


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