Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1859, MAY. 282 GEO. W. MURPHY. 1. Connelly Harrington, b. Dec. 14, 1861; married April 28, 1892. Minnie Kemper, b. Feb. 9. 1864. Mr. Harring- ton received a finished education under the tuition of the late celebrated educator, Prof. F. G. Gaylord, and himself engaged in teaching. After several years experience. he studied law. removed West, and practiced in Idaho. In 1887 he returned, and was admitted to our bar in August, 1888. In April, 1890, he purchased the Plattsburg Jeffersonian, which he made one of the leading Democratic papers of the State. In October, 1894. he sold out and went West. 2. William P. Harrington, is a chaste and forcible Writer, and a large and handsome man. He helped his father on the Dearborn Democrat. and succeeded him as postmaster. May 30 - Thomas Simpson's estate administered by W. H. Bell. Bond, $1,500. JUNE. GEO. W. MURPHY. June 1 - George W. Murphy having died May 1, 1859, his widow. Jane W.. administered. Bond, $6,000. Children: I. JOHN C. MURPHY, married Feb. 18, 1862. Lucy F. Jackson. Live in Osage C0,, Kansas. II. MARY E. MURPHY. dead. III. JAS. C. MURPHY. b. Feb. 26, 1842: married Nov. 13. 1873, Fan- nie Alvis; died Dec. 5, 1886. Children: 1. Oscar Murphy 2. Charles Murphy 3. Edward Murphy IV. GEO. IV. (ii). in Texas; married Dec. 26, 1877. Fannie Owens. V. LEAH MURPHY. married Geo. Endicott; 5 children. VI. NANCY J. MURPHY, d. in 1873; married March 1, 1866. Morgan Cockrael. Child1en: 1. Eugene Cockrael THOMAS TUDER. Juno 10 - Thomas Tudor having died. his Widow, Elizabeth administered. Bond, $16,000. Thomas Tuder married in Madison County, Ky., Elizabeth Titus, who died in 1870. They removed to Howard County, Mo., and thence came to Platte. about 1840, settling four miles southeast of Platte City. I. ELIZABETH TUDOR, b. in Howard County, Mo., Oct. 6, 1835, married in Platte Nov. 22, 1850, Dabney Perkins, b. March 4, 1822, in Boone Co. Mo., son of Jessie Perkins, of Virginia, and Fannie Turner, of Madison County, Ky. He was the grandson of Michael Perkins, of Virginia. Mr. Perkins came in 1844. He served eighteen months in Capt. Pres. Simpson's company of Enrolled Missouri Militia. Children: