James Bishop Murphy
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The Ulmer Family members are not direct descendants of James Bishop Murphy. He married a great aunt of ours. I have placed the biography (below) here to give you more information about the move of the George McCullough Family in about the year 1830.
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The Biography
James Bishop Murphy Biography: Mary Jane Hougland, James Bishop Murphy's granddaughter (and sister of Eliza Ann Murphy Everitt) wrote;
"James Bishop Murphy was born on the ship when his parents came from Ireland to the United States. On account of a storm at sea they landed in South Carolina on November 8, 1809. [NOTE: Thompson McCullough's account, also in Cool, states that George and Jennette McCullough arrived, after a stop in Bermuda, in May 1807.]
On the same ship was a family by the name of McCullough also from Ireland. These people settled close together and their children were always close friends. In 1830 the MuCulloughs decided to move North, so James Bishop Murphy and Jennett McCullough, being sweethearts, decided to get married and come north with her people although they were only twenty years old.
In 1830 with 3 teams of oxen and covered wagons and with cows tied behind, they bid farewell to their South Carolina home and for twelve weeks traveled north and west. They settled for a short time on what was latter [sic] known as the Michael Swope farm and erected a crude one room log house. At night they took turns sleeping and watching as all kinds of wild beasts roamed the woods.
Young Murphy and wife traded their yoke of oxen to a man for his three hundred and twenty acre farm, with a two story log house. It was on this farm that he lived all of his life. Five sons and three daughters blessed this home. They were; George, John, James, William and Samuel; Martha, Jennett and Mary.
James, as he was called by his relatives and friends, was reared by Christian parents and was himself a strict Presbyterian. By hard work and being careful of his earnings he was owner of 1600 acres of land, gave each child 160 acres when they married. Only two married younger than twenty three years of age. He built the first haypress and bought and bailed hay many years and shipped it south and east. He saw the first railroad build here. It was called the J. M. & I., Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis, now the Pennsylvania. During the war having shipped carloads of hay, he received in an envelope a $1000 bill, also $100, $50 and $20. He said that this was the only one thousand dollar bill that he ever saw. As there were no banks close, money and valuables were sent by mail.
In May, 1884 he passed away on the farm on which he had lived all of his married life."
Another account from Ethel Mount, great, great grandaughter of James Bishop Murphy presented at the 1961 Murphy Reunion:
To date very little authentic information concerning James Bishop Murphy, father of Samuel, has been located. He was born Sept. 31, 1804 (NOTE: 31 Sept. is impossible; and calculating from the age and date of death shown on his grave marker, he was born 3 Sept. 1809.) and married Jennett McKee McCullough, second child of George McCullough Sr., April 6, 1830 and came with the McCullough family from South Carolina into Scott County, Indiana in 1830.
"Shortly after arriving in Indiana he purchased a large tract of land north west of Vienna and established a home. This home was a two story log house located on the site where Harvey Richey's house now stands.
James B. Murphy must have been an energetic person for tradition tells us that he with the help of his sons and hired help, he frequently drove hogs and cattle from his farm to Louisville, Kentucky, the nearest market. All products were taken to this river port market. He operated a hay press, and during the Civil War sold large quantities of hay, which was to be used for the horses of the Northern Army. The hay and grain, too, were sold in Louisville but were hauled in wagons some 25 or 30 miles.
Upon one occasion while returning from the Louisville market James B. learned that Morgan's Men were raiding Southern Indiana and were near Salem and Vienna. Between Vienna and his home he saw a small group of men coming his way. The fear of being robbed prompted him to ride near the corner of a rail fence and drop his pocket book. The men took his horse, searched him, but found no money and went on their way. He returned later and found his pocketbook.
Six of his eight children married and established homes on a part of James B's original purchase. The grandchildren of James B. and Jennett McCullough grew up being neighbors to one another.
August 26, 1859 Jennett died (Samuel H. was 8 years old), and on Oct. 1,1863 James B. married Lydia M. Collins who had two daughters, Sally (Jackson) and Annie (Marlatt). Lydia was a kind and sympathetic stepmother to Samuel and a real grandmother to his children.
James Bishop Murphy passed away May 26, 1884 and is buried in the Hopewell cemetery, Scott County, Indiana.
James and Jennett had the following children; Martha Kennedy (1831-1862), George (1833-1911), Jennett Thompson (1835-1904), John (1838-1903), William B. (1840-1912), James Young (1843-1862), Mary Jane (1845-1924), Samuel Harvey (1851-1908)."