Tombstone Tuesday ~ John and Mary McMurphy

This double gravestone was photographed at Forest Hill Cemetery in Derry, New Hampshire.

In Memory of                                  In Memory of
JOHN McMURPHY               Mrs. MARY McMURPHY
Esq. justice of the                             Relict of  
Peace who                          John McMurphy
departed this life                           Esq. who died
Septr. ye 21st AD 1755             Nov. ye 19th AD 1770
AEtat  73                                     AEtat. 87
He represented this Town                                              
as a member of the General                                                
Court betwixt 20 & 30 years                                                

John McMurphy was born about 1682 in Northern Ireland, son of James McMurphy who was born in Scotland and died on 21 September 1755 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.   John's wife was Mary Cargill.

Last week I photographed the double gravestone of their son, Robert McMurphy and his wife, Jane Shirley.  Please click on this link to see it:
 http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/02/tombstone-tuesday-jane-and-robert.html


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To Cite/Link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ John and Mary McMurphy", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 14, 2012, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/02/tombstone-tuesday-john-and-mary.html: accessed [access date]).