Hugh Thomas Murrin and Ellen Thornbury

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Husband Hugh Thomas Murrin ¹

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           Born: 22 Jun 1840 - Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: George Murrin (Abt 1792-1866) 1 2 3
         Mother: Sarah Keating (      -      ) 1 2

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Wife Ellen Thornbury ⁴

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         Father: Patrick Thornbury (      -      ) 4
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Children

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1 M George P. Murrin ⁴

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         Spouse: Nellie Smith (      -      ) 4

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2 M Clarence A. Murrin ⁴

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         Spouse: Stella Smith (      -      ) 4

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3 F Nancy A. Murrin ⁴

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         Spouse: Lawrence M. O'Keefe (      -      ) 4

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4 F Luvisa Murrin ^{5 6}

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            AKA: Lavisa Murrin 4
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           Died: 23 Jun 1964 - Dallas Co, TX
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         Spouse: Eli Jackson Hovis (1870-1951) 4 5
           Marr: 1 Jan 1904 - Elmwood Place, OH 6

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5 M Arthur P. Murrin ⁴

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6 F Margaret K. Murrin ⁴

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         Spouse: M. J. Sherman (      -      ) 4

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7 M Hugh F. Murrin ⁴

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8 M Harold E. Murrin ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Hugh Thomas Murrin

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He first attended school about one mile from the family homestead in Butler County, Pennsylvania, the sessions being held in an old log cabin there, and later he went to the Seaton school and still later to a new brick school house. His father then needed him to help on the farm for a time, after which he left home and engaged in rafting on the rivers, living at Warren and Pittsburg, and at Cincinnati, Ohio, for about six years. He then opened up the coal bank on the home farm, and during the years of great oil production in his neighborhood, sold a large amount of coal. On his own land he had six producing wells. With the exception of 100 acres covered with valuable timber, and two fine orchards, he had all his land under tillage. For a time he dealt extensively in sheep and cattle, for some years raising and selling much live stock.
He and his family were members of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, at Murrinsville, of which he was treasurer for three years and a member of the church committee for five years. In politics he was a staunch Democrat and was an influential one in Venango Township almost all his mature life. For twelve years he served as school director, one year as tax collector, one year as constable, one year as assessor, three years as auditor and three years as road supervisor. [HBC 1909, 1379]

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1379.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 451.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1302.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1380.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 965.

6 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 26.