DIED

At the home of J. L. Lovett, son-in-law, in Omaha, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 1895, Jesse Murphy aged 64 years, 10 months.

Jesse Murphy is among the well-known early settlers of this county. Coming to Nebraska in 1866, he located with his family at Fort Calhoun, where he lived for many years, where a large family of children grew to maturity and where he became widely known as a man of sterling citizenship whose probity of character grew in the estimation of friends and neighbors as the years advanced. For some years past he had laid aside the cares of business and with the aged mother of his children, lived near to several of them at Stanton, this state. Though growing somewhat feeble with age he was still rugged and active for one of his years until about eight months ago when he was taken down with what developed into stricture of the bowels. Everything possible was done for him without avail, and some months ago he was brought to his daughter’s in Omaha to die, and he has been literally on his death bed for six months past. During this time he has bourne up patiently under the most intense suffering. His condition was such for three months past that his death was almost momentarily expected. Of his immediate relatives he leaves to mourn the widow, aged 79 years, and seven children as follows: Mrs. M. Fuller and Stiles J. Murphy, of Wallace, Idaho, Mrs. J. L. Lovett, Omaha, Nebr., I. P. Murphy, Stanton, Nebr., Mrs. W. C. Vaughan Blair, Nebr., Mrs. C. M. Densmore, Stanton, and Mrs. Ella Clark, Stanton.

The funeral will be held at Fort Calhoun tomorrow, Friday at 10:30 A.M., under Masonic auspices, of which order he was a long time member.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~