Annie Margaret (Hay) Murphy (1917 - 2005)

Born 31 May 1917 in Taylor County, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Daughter of Elmer Green Hay and Julia A. (Shively) Hay

Wife of Ervin Thomas Sharp Sr — married 31 Dec 1940 in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky

Wife of Franklin Thomas Murphy — married 18 Sep 1965 in Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana, USA

Descendants

Died 25 Aug 2005 at age 88 in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

My Mother

by Jean (Sharp) Esposito

My mom had a hard life. Her mother had Huntington's and was an invalid - I don't believe my mom had any memories of her mother before Huntington's had taken its toll. Her dad was rather harsh.

My mom's father took her out of school at the start of 4th grade so she could help take care of her mother and also do housework, cooking & cleaning ... sometimes she worked for someone else and she got paid but her father always told them to give him her pay.

After my mom was grown & had married my dad, she had a small health food store for several years. That way she knew there would always be food for her family. She worked very hard taking care of her children & the store, the laundry, the cleaning, etc. Most of her life Annie worked very hard.

My brother (Mike) was drafted during the Vietnam War. My mom always thought that was when she had her first heart attack. That seemed to be the start of many health problems - heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, to mention a few. She eventually was diagnosed with Parkinson's. Her health continued to decline until the day either she fell & broke her hip or her hip broke and she fell. She wound up spending the last years of her life in a nursing home with people helping to take care of her - something she hated after spending a lifetime taking care of everyone else.

We never had a lot but there was always enough food to feed someone who was hungry - even a stranger who knocked on your door. I remember when a man knocked on the front door and asked for something to eat. Mom told him to sit on the bench in the front yard that was under the shade of a large tree. Then she made a heaping plate of food for him and gave him something cold to drink. She always told us kids to share food until it was all gone.

Sources

• Birth Certificate on familysearch.org under "Annie M Kay" instead of "Annie M Hay" - on future trip to Kentucky will obtain Birth Certificate
• Social Security Death Index
• Find a Grave Memorial

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Jean (Sharp) Esposito and Sue (Smith) Knifley, her 2nd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are James Hay and Anna Bowles, the great grandparents of both Jean (Sharp) Esposito and Sue (Smith) Knifley. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd - 3rd cousin, based on sharing 197 cM across 10 segments.

Acknowledgements

• Hay-2325 was created by Bill Vincent through the import of EB Lane Family.ged on Sep 8, 2016.