--WebTV-Mail-2303-268 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Shirley, I just got back from seeing my father, who is some stage of dementia. He cannot remember what you told him five minutes ago, sometimes. Yet, when he plays cards he seems to remember every card played and plays with a skill I cannot match.I was embarrassed by his better memory when I mentioned Quincy Murphy. He quickly reminded me that Robert and Ralph were the sons of Quincy, and that Robert was the father of Esther, Mary and Bobby. Although I remember the name of Quincy, I cannot picture him. When I was speaking of Quincy before, I had a picture of Robert, Sr. in my mind. I do not know if Robert and Ralph had sisters Mary and Esther, but the Bobby, Mary and Esther I knew all called Ralph "Uncle." Ralph and his wife (Aleta Rush) had a daughter, whose name I cannot remember. I do not recall them having other children. Ralph's family lived above the service station/ car repair, and Robert and his family lived above the store located to the right of the service center. We called the store a drug store, but it would not be considered that today, I expect. I do not think they filled prescriptions, but I could be wrong. My impression is that doctors prescribed and distributed drugs used in the Friendsville area. The summer I was nine-going on-ten, our family was planning to leave early on Sunday morning to drive to Chicago. On Saturday evening my mother needed something from Ray Schlosnagle's Meat Market, and sent me to buy it. This was in 1948, and the town was alive with farmers and country folk coming into town for shopping, movies and discussions of "world affairs." Cars were parked in front of Schlosnagle's all the way to the corner, and I had to cross the street to get home, passing Schroyer's store and going 1/2 block to our own store (Kasco Feed Store). As I peered between cars to see if it was safe to cross, I was struck by something sharp sticking out from a passing bicycle which had been zooming down the street , hugging the line of cars. As I fell, I reached to my left eyebrow, and my hand came away bloody. I jumped up and ran home (probably without what my mother had sent me to buy), and my parents had to take me to Dr. White in Confluence, as the Friendsville Doctor was out of town. I recall hearing Mary Murphy (from outside Wheeler's restaurant) say to someone, "I think I hit something," and a reply, "Yes, you hit Delores." I have a scar in my left eyebrow to this day, as Dr. White pulled it together as best he could without stitching. He said that, as I would not be back from Chicago when the stitches should be taken out, he felt he should not put them in. In a picture of me standing in the waters of Lake Michigan, the bandage over my eye is another reminder of the incident. I always felt disfigured, as no hair grew in the scar and my eyebrow looked funny. My only excuse for relating this reminicence is that it relates to a member of the Murphy family. I apologise to readers who feel I wasted their time. For those interested in the Murphy family, if you email directly to me, I have many fond memories of the family's contributions to the community. They were prominent in both church and town. Delores --WebTV-Mail-2303-268 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-3210.bay.webtv.net (209.240.204.235) by storefull-2354.public.lawson.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:36:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from lists2.rootsweb.com (lists2.rootsweb.com [207.40.200.39]) by smtpin-3210.bay.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id 5D83B11DFF; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:36:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists2.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id hADFSPeo021553; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:28:25 -0700 Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:28:25 -0700 X-Original-Sender: friendfamilyassoc@iceweb.net Thu Nov 13 08:28:25 2003 Message-ID: <007401c3a9fb$9f007a80$870561cc@computer> From: "friendfamilyassociation" <friendfamilyassoc@iceweb.net> Old-To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> References: <3FAEB0E7.000007.02164@S0028482859> Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] Wm A. and Henrietta Crow MURPHY Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:34:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Resent-Message-ID: <aXvE2B.A.cQF.ZM6s_@lists2.rootsweb.com> To: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/7427 X-Loop: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: MDGARRET-L-request@rootsweb.com X-Brightmail: Message tested, results are inconclusive Delores I may be out of line but wasn't Ralph a son of Quincy, b/o Robert, Esther and Mary? 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