"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

HARRISON TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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THOMAS MURPHEY retired farmer, is a native of Kentucky, and was born in 
November, 1802. His parents, Kanlum and Nancy (Sicklesworth)Murphey, 
came to Kentucky in an early day, where they died near Lebanon. They 
had twelve children, of whom Thomas was the fifth. At the age of thirty-five 
years, he came to Putnam County, Ind., where he lived twenty-five years, 
going thence to Morgan Co., afterward coming to Owen, where he now lives. 
It was then a wilderness, and he has helped clear a large part of Harrison 
Township. When Mr. Murphy was nineteen years of age, he married to Betsy 
Douglas, with whom he lived sixty-two years. Eleven children were born to 
this marriage. In politics, Mr. Murphey is a democrat. 

"After researching Thomas, I discovered his Mother's name was actually Nay Shuttlesworth."




BIOGRAPHY SUBMITTER: Katherine Hembree