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    1. [McMurry] Georgia McMurry
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    3. William McMurray died in Morgan Co., GA, in 1815. His will listed wife, Eleanor, as well as sons, John & William, and daughters Elizabeth Evans & Mary Anderson Burney. The will also listed grandchildren, Franklin Augustus McMurray, John McDonald McMurray, Augusta Ann McMurray, and Clarissa Evans. Other than Clarissa, I do not know which of William & Eleanor's children were the parents of the grandchildren listed. Franklin Augustus McMurray was born in 1810 in Morgan Co. He married in Walton Co., GA, in 1832. He migrated to Randolph Co., AL, in 1839. He died in Randolph Co., AL, in 1906. He served in the Creek Wars in 1836. John McDonald McMurray was born around 1811. He married the first time in Washington Co., GA, in 1832, and the second time in Chambers Co., AL, in 1843. He later lived in Russell Co., AL. William McMurray Senior transferred property to his daughter, Mary, in November of 1815. (Morgan County, Georgia – Superior Court, Deed Book E, 1815-1818, Page 37) A legal notice was found in the Georgia Journal, a Milledgeville, GA, newspaper, for letters of administration for the estates of William and Elenor McMurray. A William McMurray appeared on a Tax List in Clarke Co., GA in William's District in 1805. There was also a William listed on a Tax List in Lane's District in Morgan Co., GA, in 1810. There was a William McMURRAY listed as a Grand Juror in Washington Superior Court, Washington Co., GA, for the September 1796 term. This list of jurors appeared in the 29 DEC 1796 issue of The Southern Centinel & Universal Gazette, as well as the 24 DEC 1796 issue of The Augusta Chronicle & Gazette of the State. A William McMurray was listed as Clerk of Inferior court on two Georgia Indian Depradation Claims in 1802. A William McMurray drew land in the 1807 Land Lottery of Georgia in Wilkinson County. He was listed as living in Howard's Military District in Washington Co., GA. And, a William McMurray appears in Headright Grants in Washington Co., GA, in 1786, 1790, and 1792. Anyone interested in the text of the will of William McMurray, let me know and I'll e-mail it you. Elisabeth

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