This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Murdock, Foote Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YRB.2ACE/42.89.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: At the age of twenty-one, James A. Murdock joined a volunteer unit, the 5th N.Y. Calvary, of Company H was mustered at Crown Point, and for the next four years was a Union Soldier and Officer of the Civil War. He was promoted through all non-commissioned ranks and was comissioned 2nd Lieutenant and 1st Lieutenant. He was in command of his company before the close of the war. He fought at most of the important engagements, but for his record, the reader is referred to the history of the 5th N.Y. Calvary. His youth was arrested by the events of 1860 and from the age of twenty-one to that of twnety-five, he was seared, hardenedand aged by the horrors of war. He must have been thoroughly sickened and disgusted by the experience because, honored though he had been, he promptly threw away or gave away most of his Army accountrements, never joined the G.A.R., and rarely could he be drawn into telling of any war time stories. While in the service, letters from his sister Anna, then attending the academy at Middlebury, Vermont, were augmented by letters from her roommate Emma J. Parks of Cornwall, Vermont, a talented young woman whose love for poetry and art is still recorded by numerous poems and paintings in the possession of her children. The correspondence between the Union Officer somewhere inDixie and the school girl in Vermont nurtured a romance and shorlty after his return, they were married. His age was 26 and her age 22. Upon some two hundred acres contibuted by his father - a part of the original acreage of his grandfather, Judge Murdock - and only some two hundred yards westward from the site of his grandfather's stone house, he shortly set about building a large frame farm house surmounted by a cupalo in the popular style of the period. The arduousness of this work can now be comprehended with difficulty. For many months, he has related, he seldom saw his young wife by daylight. The duties of the farm, long trips to a mill by team for lumber and timbers and the building of his new home took him away before daylight and kept him long after dark. Happier years followed. A son was born before the house was completed and three more came to brighten the new home. Infrequent days of recreation were invariably for the benefit of the children, where at country fair or circus, his quizzical but never boisterous good humor enlivened the occasion for the youngsters. But on February 1, 1882, his wife Emma Parks, suddenly died at the age of 38. It was perhaps providential that there had been a boarding in the home, a young woman, the daughter of Rev. Charles A. Beaudry (a Methodist pastor and former Army Chaplain), Celeste A. Beaudry, who was teaching at the nearby district school. Already known and loved by the children, it was most natural that with the passing of the shock and bereavement of his loss, James Murdock should find his heart following those of his children toward their new mother - on Sept. 20, 1883, they were married. Celeste Beaudry was at the time twenty-five years of age, James was forty-four years old. Three children came from this union during the next seven years, and the seven children grew up as one family, made to feel by the new mother totally unconscious of anything less than a full relationship. After an illness of less than a year, he died on Feb 7, 1900 at the age of sixty-one, five children were still living at home at the time. >From Genealogy notes of Robert B. Murdock, VIII Generation >From "MURDOCK GENEALOGY" by Joseph B. Murdock, Boston, C.E.Goodspeed & Co., 1925. pg. James Artemas (Samuel F., Samuel, James, John, Peter) was born August 4, 1838, and married Emma J. Parke, January 18, 1866. Crown Point, Essex County, New York, Census-------June 1, 1875 Born Occupation Frame Value James A. Murdock 35 M Essex Farmer Wood 3000 Emma P. 30 F Franklin Harry F. 4 M son Brick Church Cemetary, Crown Point, headstones are together and read as follows: James A. Murdock Emma J. Parks died wife of J.A. Murdock Feb. 7, 1900 age 60 died 1882 Lieut. of II 5th age 38 NY Vol. Cav. 1561 1865 2nd wife Celeste ***********************JAMES' FATHER: Samuel Foote Murdock (1st) spent his entire life on the soil where he was born, but this limited geographical horizon produced neither a plodder nor a bigot. He read considerably, especially in his latter years, was always well informed on current events and acquired wealth of knowledge not identified with his vocation as a farmer. he had a kindly, genial dispostion and his clear, untroubled eyes bespke a man of wisdom and good-will. He was a medium or even less than medium height, and more than average weight without being corpulent. His appearance was widely different from his older brother Jim, who was taller and more angular. In disposition, they were also unalike. The two, however fared well as partners and with their father's guidance soon doubled the property he had acquired and farmed it all more intensely. The congenial nature and kindly wisdom of Samuel Foote (1st) was due in some part no doubt to this period and to the circumstances of his life. Up to the last two decades of his life, economice conditions in general had been favorable to farming and in the middle life he profited by the boom prices of the Civil War when, as an example, we and his brother recieved $1.00 a pound for the wool from their flock of 2000 sheep. With his brother, Jim he recieved a large productive sure-crop farm plant from his father, and up to the age of 45 had his father at his side for advice and aid. On a site one mile south from the old forts and some hundred yards eastward from the highway, he purchased a rambling, one and a half story farm house in the early New England style. This location was a short quarter mile northward from his father's home, also occupied by his brother, Jim, following the burning of Judge Murdock's stone house a mile to the southward. In this new home he lived out his life. When his two sons and the two eldest sons of his brother, Jim, reached maturity, they were each given a farm of about two hundred and fifty acres, cut from the acreage accumulated by Judge Murdock and extended by his sons. Sometime prior to this, the sites of the old Forts. St. Frederick and Crown Point with some two hundred adjacent acres had been sold and Samuel Foote Murdock (1st) retained several hundred acres until his death. Samuel Foote Murdock (1st) was during his entire life an active member and usually on the Board of the First Congregational Church of Crown Point. " He had what must have been even in that time and place, a remarkable turnout, a closed carriage - a coach - with box for the drivers and with an interior upholestered in white brocade. ( I saw this old coach some 30 years ago (from date of 1939), then rather the worse for wear.)" >From Genealogy Notes of Robert B. Murdock, VIII Generation 1839 - Churchhill's sale of the property to JAMES AND SAMUEL MURDOCK contains the first pronouncement advocating the preservation of this site. In the tranfer, he stipulates that future owners, being the Murdocks and beyond, could neither "Do or suffer to be comitted on said premises any kind of waste by tearing down any of the ramparts or walls or carrying away any of the material of which the erections on the said premises are composed." He also included a stipulation which stated "That if it shall at any time happen that the Government of the United States or the Government of New York State shall desire...to purchase the premises....for military", it could; for the some of $230. "The Murdocks owned the Forts for ten years".---- Lib Skinner Crown Point State Historic Site, An Historical Introduction, Administered by Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation with the cooperation of Department of Environmental Conservation. Timothy D. Titus. (A copy given to me by Elizabeth T. Trimble Skinner) >From "MURDOCK GENEALOGY" by Joseph B. Murdock, Boston, C.E.Goodspeed & Co., 1925. pg.213. Samuel Foote (Samuel, James, John, Peter) was born October 12, 1812, probably in Crown Point, New York and married Laura J. Snell. Brick Church Cemetary, Crown Point, headstones are together and read as follows: Dea. Samuel F. Murdock Born Oct. 12, 1812 died Dec 22, 1894 Laura J. Snell his wife Born July 10, 1818 died Apr. 2, 1902 John Campbell Laura Jane son of daughter of S.F. and L.J. Murdock S.F. and L.J. Murdock Born March 24, 1841 Born Feb 7, 1847 died Oct. 7, 1841 died March 31, 1847 "suffer the little child to come home" ******************************** Judge Samuel Murdock married again in 1822 - this time to Mehitabel Post Foote of Cornwell, Vermont, who was the widow of Sally Foote's (his first wife's) uncle, Lieutenant David Foote, who had died in 1813. David Foote did not marry until he was 49 years old and his wife was probably much younger. Genealogy notes of Robert B. Murdock, VIII Generation Karen, I would suspect Your Elijah Foote is somehow related to Mehitable Foote/David of Cornwall.......I don't have any info on the Raine's but a lot on the Foote's.......you may want to go to Rootsweb, addison county vt, homepage, there is a copy of Abigail Hemenway's gazzeeteer 1860, that is scanned and posted for research. There are many Footes in these pages, you may find what you are looking for, maybe Raines too. I have come accross Raine spelled "Ranne" also in some history's of essex county. Occasionnally on ebay, if your do a search of Crown Point NY on ebay or Lake Champlain, some one will have up for bid: Lighthouses book or sometimes Women Lighthouse keepers. I am assuming that because these books are posted in these categories that there must be something about Lake champlain Lighthouse in them.... I talked to Lib Skinner yesterday, she was Crown Point Historian, I mentioned that you replied to a Murdock posting and thinks she might know you.......... How are you related to the Murdock's? thru James Artemas? I am related thru Katie Murdock/Moore of Crown Point, Her father Andrew Young Murdock, James Murdock, Samuel Murdock........etc.......... Do you know of any asssocation of Raine's with the Trimble's? Trimbles are from Orange county NY, circa 1780ish when they came into Crown Point Ti area....it is a long shot but try the orange county website.....there is a cluster of families from that area that came up to essex county...Dealls, etc... I would love any info that you would be able to share, as I said I have much more on allied lines of the wives families, associated with Murdocks, ie Buckingham's, Maverick, Fithian, Griswold, Hosmer, Tully and a few others.......that I can share too..........I look forward to hearing from you.....I don't have a website, so I figured can post my info here so that others can use it........we can communicate thru here and thru email if you would like..........Thank You!! Stephanie

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