Sometimes the names you run across give you some insight into forgotten history and what was important to the people at the time. I noticed your "M. Commodore Perry Murphy", obviously named shortly after Perry's victory in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. I had a relative, born just months after that battle, who was named "Oliver Hazard Perry Anderson". Naming a child after a war hero was pretty common in those days! The given name "Albert" got into my family line starting in the 1830s in Mason Co., and I've been wondering if it was from General Albert Sidney Johnston, who was from Mason Co. and earned fame at that time in the Texas War of Independence (he was later killed at Shiloh during the Civil War). Doug Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: <kymason-request@rootsweb.com> To: <kymason@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:11 AM Subject: KYMASON Digest, Vol 2, Issue 35 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:03:19 -0500 > From: "Dick Watters" <r.watters@att.net> > Subject: Re: [KYMASON] David Murphy > To: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com>, <kymason@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <00fb01c752e7$d20c1a40$654e4b0c@RWattersPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > To: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com > Found on Family Search.org > http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=ancestorsearchresults.asp > > > 5. M Commodore Perry MURPHY (AFN:4131-20) > > Born: 27 Aug 1815 Place: Nr Chilicothe, Ross, Oh >

Doug, It's doubtful. Johnston didn't gain fame in the Texas War for Independence, but in the Mexican-American War about ten years later in the late 1840s, where Johnston served as a US Army officer. He then was assigned to Texas to protect settlers from the Comanches. After being posted to Utah by the Army to protect the Mormons from the Indians (and to put down the practice of polygamy by the Mormons), Johnston settled in Texas. Johnston was the Confederate commander at the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) in 1862, where he was mortally wounded by "friendly" fire. This would have been the time for people to name children for him, although the majority of Mason Countians were Union sympathizers. Interestingly, although Johnston and his brothers all settled in the deeper South and were ardent Confederates, his parents (father a physician) were from Massachusetts and settled in Washington (now a part of Maysville), Mason County, KY shortly before his birth. His mother originally named him Algernon Sidney Johnston, but his father preferred Albert. A little bit about my Mason County roots: My great-grand uncle, Private Thomas Hixson was killed serving in the Confederate Infantry at Shiloh, dying the same day as Johnston, while Thomas' brother-in-law, my great-grandfather, Morgan B Hopper, was serving the Union as a Cavalry Sergeant at the same time (but not at Shiloh). Hope this is informative and helpful, Ben Hawkins --- Doug Gordon <doug@wdgordon.com> wrote: > Sometimes the names you run across give you some > insight into forgotten > history and what was important to the people at the > time. I noticed your "M. > Commodore Perry Murphy", obviously named shortly > after Perry's victory in > the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. I > had a relative, born just > months after that battle, who was named "Oliver > Hazard Perry Anderson". > > Naming a child after a war hero was pretty common in > those days! The given > name "Albert" got into my family line starting in > the 1830s in Mason Co., > and I've been wondering if it was from General > Albert Sidney Johnston, who > was from Mason Co. and earned fame at that time in > the Texas War of > Independence (he was later killed at Shiloh during > the Civil War). > > Doug Gordon > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <kymason-request@rootsweb.com> > To: <kymason@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:11 AM > Subject: KYMASON Digest, Vol 2, Issue 35 > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:03:19 -0500 > > From: "Dick Watters" <r.watters@att.net> > > Subject: Re: [KYMASON] David Murphy > > To: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com>, > <kymason@rootsweb.com> > > Message-ID: > <00fb01c752e7$d20c1a40$654e4b0c@RWattersPC> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > To: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com > > Found on Family Search.org > > > http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=ancestorsearchresults.asp > > > > > > 5. M Commodore Perry MURPHY (AFN:4131-20) > > > > Born: 27 Aug 1815 Place: Nr Chilicothe, Ross, > Oh > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to KYMASON-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/