Aaron Murray was born on 27 Jan 1822 in Ohio. He married Maria P Harris (1823–1854) on 26 Aug 1843 and they lived in Chester, Wabash County, Indiana. They had two sons before her death on 11 Jul 1854. She was buried in Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Liberty Mills, Wabash County, Indiana.[1][2]
Aaron Murray and Maria Harris had the following children:
Aaron married Hannah (Bender) Murray (1825-1905) on 15 Mar 1855 in Kosciusko County, Indiana. Aaron and Hannah lived in Jackson Township in 1860 but soon moved to Liberty Mills, where their daughter Rosa was born, and then to Illinois by 1862. [3][4]
Hannah (Bender) Eby and Aaron Murray had the following children:
Aaron enlisted in Company F of the 113th Illinois Infantry at Belmont, Iroquois County, Illinois, on 12 Aug 1862 - the same unit as Hannah's brother, Lyman Bender. Lyman was captured and died in Andersonville prison on 10 Oct 1864; Aaron was discharged at Camp Butler for disability on 27 Oct 1864.[5]
After the Civil War Aaron and Hannah moved their family to Big Creek in Grant Township, Neosho County, Kansas.[6][7][8]
Aaron died on 8 Jul 1887 and was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Stark, Neosho County, Kansas. Hannah administered his estate. A notice of his death was published in the Chanute Weekly Times on 14 Jul 1887.[9][10][11]Mr. Aaron Murray, an old, respected and leading citizen of Grant, died on Friday morning last, at 9 o'clock, and was buried on Saturday. The funeral was very large, every body desiring to pay the last tribute of respect. Mr. Murray died from flux. He was one of the oldest settlers of the township, having lived there nearly seventeen year. He had often been honored by positions of trust by his fellow citizens, and was a township officer when he died. Mr. Murray was a class leader in the M. E. church, and died in the saving faith of his religion.
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