Don, Is there any way that we could get a copy of your McMurry Family book?I went to the library here and they dont have the book either. This is also my family I have been told.My great grandfather was named Travis McMurry and his dad I have been told is John McMurry,my great grandfather Travis lived in Tennessee but thats about as far back as I know.I have been trying to do the family history but cant find out much.My email is PGDavis47@hotmail.com Patty Davis >From: "Don McMurray" <don@norrishouse.com> >Reply-To: MCMURRY-L@rootsweb.com >To: MCMURRY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [McMurry] McMurry family book >Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:15:26 -0400 > >Marilyn Bone sold me the last copy she had of "McMurry Family" and you are >right about discrepancies and errors in the book. Unfortunately, very >little documentation is included but the book is a good compilation of the >early research by Earnest I. Lewis and W. Fletcher Guy McMurry. I have a >lot of documentation now on the earliest McMurray men and their wives. >Including, surprisingly, proof that the William McMurry in the book was >actually William McMurray, the son of an older William McMurray. The older >William lived with two his sons, Samuel and William, up on the Cowpasture >River near Iron Gate east of Clifton Forge, Va. The other three sons were >down on the floor of the valley. > >The family history supplied by Lewis & W.F.G. McMurray tells the story of >William bringing his wife and five sons from Ulster to America prior to >1749 >when we find the family scattered in the Shenandoah Valley (Augusta Co.) of >Virginia. The family history is correct but off by a generation. If >anyone >is interested in the family from 1749 on let me know. > >Regards, Don McMurray > >Shannon, Pam & Don McMurray >The Norris House Inn & Stone House Tea Room (www.norrishouse.com) >Thomas Birkby House - A Meeting Place (www.birkbyhouse.com) >108-9 Loudoun St., SW, Leesburg, VA 20175 >Tel. NHI: 703.777.1806 E-mail: don@norrishouse.com >Tel. TBH: 703.779.2933 E-mail: info@birkbyhouse.com >Fax: 703.771.8051 > > >-----Original Message----- >From: nfn01995@naples.net [mailto:nfn01995@naples.net] >Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:34 AM >To: MCMURRY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [McMurry] McMurry family book > > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0E0.2ACEB/36.43 > >Message Board Post: > >The book is "McMurry Family; Descendants of William and Mary McMurry, >1750-1986," edited by Marilyn A. Bone, originally published in 1987 by >Gateway Press. It's been out of print for years. I don't have a copy >either, so please don't ask me for lookups! > >I have seen parts of it, though, and it was a very worthy effort. >Unfortunately much of the material was compiled at a time when research was >much harder to do and resources not as widely available as they are now, so >some of the information, particularly about the very earliest generation, >is >inaccurate. > >______________________________ > > _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com