Judi Lewis
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This record was a fusion of four men (see reports/ext-john-omorrow-I500262-2026-10-07.txt). Kept: John Morrow of Mecklenburg Co., NC (b. c1725, d. by April 1795). Removed: 1720 NC and 1759 SC births, 1860 Tennessee death, Civil War service (13th Battery Mich. L.A.) and 1891 pension (Jennette O'Morrow).
* 1880 MAHASKA COUNTY ESTATE TRIAL (Session 7-8, Sep 10 2026): the Weekly Oskaloosa Herald (15/22/29 Jan, 5 Feb 1880) ran his estate notices - Gorsuch v. Murrow heirs partition suit + contested will of widow Sarah Murrow, Feb 1880 circuit court term. Heir shares sum exactly 45/45ths: James R. 6, Thomas A. 6, Benjamin F./John M./Nancy A./William A./Mary E. (Arnold) 1 each, 5 McClure grandchildren 1 joint, Gorsuch plaintiffs 27. Administrator Thomas Alexander Murrow (1839-1912, Wayne Co. IA, FaG 38088556; obituary: came with parents from Indiana to Mahaska 1850). Death 13 Apr 1878, place [LIKELY] Mahaska Co. IA (estate venue). Children family (BF1) built from the notice. Sources: murrow/MURROW-1909-MURDER-AND-1880-TRIAL.md. DISTINCT from nephew Benjamin Lewis Murrow (1834-1868, record I272787601573).
BIRTH: Wallingford Family website has birth in Mason County, Kentucky.
BIRTH: Murrow Family website has birth in Kentucky County, Virginia. Attime of his birth it was Virgina before Kentucky gained statehood.
Patriarch of the Kentucky-branch Murrows. Parents unknown in all free sources. NEHGR 1:375-379 "First Murrows in America" is the 1651/52 Scotch prisoner list (Neile/Jonas/James/John Murrow) - no proven link.
BIOGRAPHY: Went from Virginia to Indiana and then his children went on toIowa in 1843 where most of them homesteaded, becoming farmers.
Named "James Murrow" in the 1942 Wallingford book, the DAR file for application #896295 and the research master. "James Madison Murrow" (kept as an alternate name) is the name of his grandson b. 1826 and appears to come from imported trees.
Remy Family has name as Joseph F. James Murrow.
m. (1) Elizabeth Morris; 1942 book Sub-Branch 20 covers his line.
m. Jacob Applegate.
Name spelled Murrah in marriage record.
May have been a cousin.
BIRTH: "Descendants of James Murrow," by Charles Harlan Murrow, Des Moines, IA ttorney, ca 1930's. Copy in Des Moines, IA, Historical Lib.; also in Iowa Genealogical Society Lib., Des Moines, IA. DEATH: Rebecca was mentioned in minutes of Old Mt. Gilead church, Mason Co, KY, dated 30 Apr 1820. Rebecca must have died between then and 1832-35 when James Murrow supposedly went to Parke Co, IN. There is a possibility that James was in Indiana by 1830 -- see Notes for James Murrow under "Resided." [Note: James Murrow was received for baptism, 2 Jun 1824.]
Morrow family has her as daughter of Benjamin Franklin Wallingford'sfather Ben, senior.