Hazel Ruth (McCullough) Murphy (1895 - 1958)

Born 26 Nov 1895 in Hartford, Lyon County, Kansas, USA

Ancestors

Wife of James Franklin Pickett — married 14 Feb 1920 in Burlington, Coffey, Kansas, USA

Wife of Thomas Charles Murphy — married 14 Dec 1943 in Overton, Dawson, Nebraska, USA

Descendants

Died 8 Dec 1958 at age 63 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA

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Biography

Hazel is buried in Emporia, Kansas

Sources

• Personal Knowledge of Kevin Pickett

Biography

Hazel Ruth McCullough. ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

Born 26 NOV 1895. Hartford, Lyon, Kansas, USA. ^{[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]}

Died 08 DEC 1958. Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, USA. ^{[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]} Cause: Heart attack.

Buried Memorial Lawn Cemetery. 12 DEC 1958. Emporia, Lyon, Kansas, USA. Note: #N997. ^{[31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]}

Residence 1910 Elmerdaro, Lyon, Kansas, USA. 1920 Emporia, Lyon, Kansas, USA. Age: 34; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife. 1930 Hartford, Lyon, Kansas, USA. ^[40] Age: 9. 01 MAR 1905. Elmerdaro, Lyon, Kansas, USA. ^[41] 1946 Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, USA. ^[42] Age: 4; Relation to Head of House: Daughter. 1900 Elmerdaro, Lyon, Kansas, USA. ^[43] 1957 Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, USA. ^[44]

Height: 5 ft. 1 in.

Weight: 135 lb. 0 oz.

Event: 5 ft. 1 in. Preview Last Report.

Note: #N457.

Marriage Husband James Franklin Pickett. Wife Hazel Ruth McCullough. Child: James Norman Pickett. Child: George William Darrell Pickett. Child: Franklin Odell Pickett. Child: Fayrene Pearl Pickett. Divorce: Divorce. 1938 Marriage Judge Kelly Presiding. 14 FEB 1920. Burlington, Coffey, Kansas, USA. Note: #N1165.

Notes

Note N457#1. Hazel Ruth McCullough was born and raised on her parent's farm home south of Hartford, Kansas. She was the second daughter of two girls and four boys born to George William and Mary Ellen "Ella" Duckett McCullough. She attended country school near her home, and high school in Hartford, where she graduated. She was a beautiful and energentic young lady. She met Frank Pickett in Hartford and they fell hopelessly in love and were married in Burlington, Kansas on February 14, 1920, despite her parents warnings that Frank was a wanderer and might not settle well into a lifetime marriage. 1

#2. In marriage, Hazel may have compared Frank's happy go lucky ways to her father's businesslike approach to caring for his family and providing well for them. Hazel, Frank and family lived in the three room house in south Hartford, which Hazel's father gave to her, for several years. After the birth of their fifth child, George Darrell, more room was needed, so the family moved to the north end of Mill Street, into a two story home owned by Hazel's father. When Frank's wandering ways became permanent in 1938, Hazel, who had previously been a part time Avon representative, had to find employment to support herself, Faye and Darrell. "Bud" and "Perk" were also in the household part of the time until 1940 when they both joined the military service. 1

#3. Hazel cleaned houses for .15 cents an hour to provide a basic living for them. She became the head cook for the Hartford School lunch program, where she served with distinction, until the program ended in 1943. She also set type for Austin Bernheisel at the Hartford Times newspaper during part of this period of the Great Depression. The family, of course, could not afford to stay in the house on Mill Street and moved back to Hazel's three room home near her mother's home in south Hartford. "Swede," Hazel's younger brother, was a qualified electrician and wired the little house for electricity. Unfortunately, Hazel never had enough money to pay the .50 charge to have a meter set and electricity turned on. They continued to use kerosene lamps for light, and an oil stove to cook. A large wood burning stove heated the house in the winter. In the winter, any liquids left standing in the house over night froze solid by morning. Water was from the well twenty feet outside the back door. The outhouse was a half block north of the house. Last year's Sears Roebuck catalog took the place of Charmin. It was a place where you did your business and didn't linger. In the winter it was much too cold. In the summer, even the supply of powdered lime, which was used to keep down the odor, did not completely do tthe job. The only refrigeration was to hang a covered bucket, filled with the milk bottle and other perishables, with a rope to lower it to hang in the water at the bottom of the well. Hazel did all her laundry by hand, heating water in buckets on a small wood burning "monkey" stove outside, or in the smoke house, and rubbing the clothes on a washboard, then hanging them to dry on clotheslines in the back yard, after a thorough rinsing and "bluing" the white clothes. She always had a large vegetable garden and she canned vegetables and fruit for the winter. A very large potato patch provided the family with their needs throughout the year. The potatoes were stored on wood and hardware cloth (wire) racks around the outside walls of the cave, under the smoke house. In the fall, the family would go to some of the black walnut and pecan trees growing by the wayside or near the river, to gather walnuts and pecans as a treat and for baking. Hazel never had a car and she never learned to drive. 1

#4. Hazel "kept company" with Thomas Charles Murphy in the early forties. He was drafted into the army in early 1942 and was stationed at Camp Carson, Colorado. In 1943, Tom was mustered out of the army because of his age, He and Hazel were married in October of that year and immediately moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where Tom had a job waiting for him in a defense industry, Jerpe Commission Co. Life with Tom was no great Utopia, either. She loved him but he proved to be miserly and her quality of life did not much improve, except she no longer had to suffer such back breaking labor just to provide for herself and Darrell. In all her life, Hazel never had a telephone or a washing machine or dryer. Nor did she have a refrigerator much of the time, nor most of the modern conveniences that other people took for granted. Tom would give her .50 cents a day to buy groceries. She lived a very simple life. 1

#5. Hazel had cancerous skin blemishes removed twice during her adult years, and had a heart attack in 1957. She died of another heart attack on 8 Dec 1959. Hazel was a wonderful, loving Christian woman, who loved to care for her family and to keep house and cook. She loved her grandchildren dearly and it was her joy to do whatever she could for each of them. She asked nothing for herself, nor did she complain of her troubles. She simply gave everything of herself for her family. 1

Note N997.

Event Description: Maplewood Memorial Lawn Cemetery: D - W 1/2 48 - 4.

Sources

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2. ↑ Source: #S86 Record for Hazel Ruth Mccullough Pickett
3. ↑ Source: #S61 Record for Fayrene Pearl Wood
4. ↑ Source: #S60
5. ↑ Source: #S87 Record for Hazel Ruth Mccullough Pickett
6. ↑ Source: #S62 Record for Fayrene Pearl Wood
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9. ↑ Source: #S308 Record for Hazel Ruth Mccullough Pickett
10. ↑ Source: #S334 Year: 1930; Census Place: Hartford, Lyon, Kansas; Roll: 709; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0009; Image: 118.0; FHL microfilm: 2340444 Record for J Franklin Pickett Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&h=33174499&indiv=try
11. ↑ Source: #S336 Kansas State Historical Society; Topeka, Kansas; 1905 Kansas Territory Census; Roll: ks1905_87; Line: 18 Record for Hazel McCullough Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=KSstatecen&h=6295650&indiv=try
12. ↑ Source: #S331 Record for Hazel R Murphy Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=USDirectories&h=1087102426&indiv=try
13. ↑ Source: #S332 Year: 1900; Census Place: Elmerdaro, Lyon, Kansas; Roll: 487; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0067; FHL microfilm: 1240487 Record for Hazel Mcullough Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&h=6196954&indiv=try
14. ↑ Source: #S331 Record for Hazel R Murphy Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=USDirectories&h=882795942&indiv=try
15. ↑ Source: #S58
16. ↑ Source: #S61 Record for Fayrene Pearl Wood
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18. ↑ Source: #S62 Record for Fayrene Pearl Wood
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20. ↑ Source: #S334 Year: 1930; Census Place: Hartford, Lyon, Kansas; Roll: 709; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0009; Image: 118.0; FHL microfilm: 2340444 Record for J Franklin Pickett Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&h=33174499&indiv=try
21. ↑ Source: #S336 Kansas State Historical Society; Topeka, Kansas; 1905 Kansas Territory Census; Roll: ks1905_87; Line: 18 Record for Hazel McCullough Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=KSstatecen&h=6295650&indiv=try
22. ↑ Source: #S332 Year: 1900; Census Place: Elmerdaro, Lyon, Kansas; Roll: 487; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0067; FHL microfilm: 1240487 Record for Hazel Mcullough Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&h=6196954&indiv=try
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24. ↑ Source: #S86 Record for Hazel Ruth Mccullough Pickett
25. ↑ Source: #S61 Record for Fayrene Pearl Wood
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27. ↑ Source: #S87 Record for Hazel Ruth Mccullough Pickett
28. ↑ Source: #S62 Record for Fayrene Pearl Wood
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30. ↑ Source: #S308 Record for Hazel Ruth Mccullough Pickett
31. ↑ Source: #S58
32. ↑ Source: #S86 Record for Hazel Ruth Mccullough Pickett
33. ↑ Source: #S61 Record for Fayrene Pearl Wood
34. ↑ Source: #S60
35. ↑ Source: #S87 Record for Hazel Ruth Mccullough Pickett
36. ↑ Source: #S62 Record for Fayrene Pearl Wood
37. ↑ Source: #S25 Record for Hazel Ruth McCullough Murphy
38. ↑ Source: #S214
39. ↑ Source: #S308 Record for Hazel Ruth Mccullough Pickett
40. ↑ Source: #S334 Year: 1930; Census Place: Hartford, Lyon, Kansas; Roll: 709; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0009; Image: 118.0; FHL microfilm: 2340444 Record for J Franklin Pickett Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&h=33174499&indiv=try
41. ↑ Source: #S336 Kansas State Historical Society; Topeka, Kansas; 1905 Kansas Territory Census; Roll: ks1905_87; Line: 18 Record for Hazel McCullough Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=KSstatecen&h=6295650&indiv=try
42. ↑ Source: #S331 Record for Hazel R Murphy Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=USDirectories&h=1087102426&indiv=try
43. ↑ Source: #S332 Year: 1900; Census Place: Elmerdaro, Lyon, Kansas; Roll: 487; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0067; FHL microfilm: 1240487 Record for Hazel Mcullough Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&h=6196954&indiv=try
44. ↑ Source: #S331 Record for Hazel R Murphy Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=USDirectories&h=882795942&indiv=try

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