This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Murrell, Musgrove, Stinson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GkB.2ACI/951 Message Board Post: Looking for John W. Murrell son of Wm. but not of Laura, rather 1st wife "Sallie", hopefully Sarah A. Stinson. 1870 Titus Co., Texas (now Franklin Co.) pg. 111 Murrell, W.R. 34 farmer b. Ga. Sallie 28 b. Ala. Martha 7 b. Ala. Nancy 9 b. Ala John W. 1 b. Tx. 1880 Franklin Co., Texas William Murrell 46 b. Al Laura 21 b. Al John 12 b. Tx Gustus 1 b. Tx Phillip MUSGROVE bro-n-law 17 b. Al 1900 Bowie Co., Texas, Pct. 2, So. of T & P RR, pg. 154 W.R. Murrell b. July 1836 63 m. 37 yrs. b. Ga. Ga./Ga B.L. wife b. March 1859 41 m. 37 Lucy b. Oct. 1883 16 b. Tx Ga/Al Lizzie b. Feb. 1886 14 " " Chisolm (son)b. July 1887 12 " " Jessie (son) b. May 1889 11 " " Lesly (son) b, May 1892 8 " " John W. (son)b. May 1872 28 widowed " Ga/Al W.E. grandson b. Nov. 1897 b. Tx Tx/Tx In the 1900 census this seems to be the same couple as the 1880 with the wife being LAURA MUSGROVE. Note that she gives birth date of 1859. If they had been married 37 years in 1900 that means she would have married in 1863! So I view that as a mistake. The 1870 couple appears to be William R. Murrell with a first wife given the son John in the other census that seems to be the same man. I am hoping that first wife of W.R. Murrell was (Sallie is nickname for Sarah) Sarah A. STINSON, daughter of John Stinson and Martha C. Williamson who migrated to Titus, now Franklin Co., Texas by 1868 from Pike Co., Ala. John Stinson sold land to Wm. R. Murrell in 1870. Laura doesn't seem to be the mother of John W. Murrell widowed in 1900 as she would have had to have him (21 - 12 = 9) at a very young age! Would the 1900 family be familiar to you? I am interested in chasing down John W. Murrell's death as I may have a shot at a death certificate that may connect him to the Stinsons. Wm. E. Murrell the grandson seems to be in the SSDI as dying in Louisianna in 1990.