I copied this from another JACKSON-CLAY-OVERTON-CO-TN-L Can anyone tell me what happened to Sarah (BIRDWELL) MURRAY, the wife of James MURRAY, after the 1900 Clay County, Tennessee Census? That's the last time I ever saw of her...She had three children back then and was listed as a "widow". James MURRAY does not show up in that record. In fact, on the 1870 Monroe County, Kentucky Census, James does not show then. Sarah is listed as the head-of-household and a "farmeress" with a few children: Barbara age 22; Elizabeth age 16; and possibly a grandchild, Amanda age 2. If I can't find James MURRAY, I would like to know what happened to Sarah. Some children had grown up, gotten married. Did she move to live with one of them? I know of one son, George W. MURRAY, who married Sarah A. COPASS, the daughter of Thomas H. COPASS and Nancy J. GULLEY. This family moved after the 1910 Clay County, Tennessee Census, to Weaver, Williamson County, Illinois, in Southern Illinois, near Herrin. This particular MURRAY family (James and Sarah BIRDWELL MURRAY) moved back and forth from Clay County, Tennessee to Monroe County, Kentucky...Children born to James and Sarah were: A. John Alexander "Elick" MURRAY, born 23 December, 1841, in Washington County, Tennessee, and died 8 October, 1909. He married to Teany Angeline COPASS about 1867. He served in the Civil war in the Union 5th Kentucky Cavalry, Comapny K from 1861 to May, 1865. John and Teany are buried in the Browning Cemetery in Clay County, Tennessee. B. William P. MURRAY, born about 1843, in Kentucky. C. Barbara Jarrot MURRAY, born about 1847. D. Samuel F. MURRAY, born 1 July, 1848, and died 20 January, 1923. He married to Lucinda Elizabeth VINSON on 19 January, 1881. Lucinda was born 10 June, 1859, and died 23 September, 1929. On the 1890 Clay County, Tennessee Census, Samuel MURRAY is shown as a "boarder" in the household of William P. HATCHER. E. George W. MURRAY, born in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, on 25 August, 1850, and died 28 October, 1928, in Weaver, Williamson County, Illinois. He married Sarah A. Copass in Clay County, Tennessee, on 29 March, 1873. Sarah was the daughter of Thomas H. COPASS and Nancy J. GULLEY. Sarah was born in September, 1849, at Red Boiling Springs, Macon County, Tennessee, and died in Herrin, Williamson County, Illinois, in 1931. George worked at the Old Ben Coal Corporation in or near Herrin. They had Franklin, Milton, Hova Turner, Nancy Rendie, Benton E., and Shadrach William "Shade" MURRAY. George W. and Sarah A. (COPASS) MURRAY are buried in the Herrin City Cemetery, in Herrin, Williamson County, Illinois. F. Elizabeth E. MURRAY, born 15 May, 1853, in Monroe County, Kentucky. She married to Samuel T. SMITH on 17 December, 1872, in Clay County, Tennessee. The Monroe County, Kentucky Vital Statistics show Elizabeth as being born in September, 1852 (Samuel T. SMITH also listed as "James T. SMITH" in Clay County, Tennessee Marriage Record). Samuel and Elizabeth buried in Mt. Vernon Cemetery in Clay County, Tennessee. G. Thomas MURRAY, born 4 November, 1855, in Monroe County, Kentucky, and died 17 July, 1937. He married to Mary Meadie WILSON on 20 June, 1880. Mary Meadie WILSON was born 17 October, 1863, and died 8 November, 1951. On the 1852 and 1853 Monroe County, Kentucky Tax List, there appears James MURRAY with three children ages 5 to 16. On the 1854 Monroe County, Kentucky Tax List, James MURRAY has livestock and four children ages 4 to 16. James MURRAY is not listed on the 1855 or 1856 Monroe County, Kentucky Tax Lists. The 1850 Monroe County, Kentucky Census shows a "Jarrot" MURRAY born in Kentucky. The 1860 Census lists B.J. and G.W. born in in Kentucky. The 1870 Monroe County, Kentucky Census lists Barbary J. and George W. born in Tennessee...The 1900 lists Samuel MURRAY born in Tennessee... If you are descended from ANY of these children of James and Sarah (BIRDWELL) MURRAY, please, contact me... Sam D. Lawson bulldog2429@voyager.net