Jeremiah Murry and Ann Montgomery
Husband Jeremiah Murry 1 2 3
AKA: Jeremiah McMurry,4 Jeremiah Murray 5 Born: Abt 1759 - Ireland Christened: Died: 3 Sep 1835 1 Buried:Marriage:
Other Spouse: Sutia Stewart (1777-1857) 6 - 1820 7
Wife Ann Montgomery 1 2
Born: Christened: Died: 7 Sep 1819 1 Buried:
Children
1 F Elizabeth Murry 1
AKA: Eliza Murray 5 8 Born: Christened: Died: 1876 9 Buried:Spouse: Rev. Mungo Dick (1772-1840/1849) 5 8 10 11 Marr: 1815 5 9
2 F Nancy Murry 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: John Cowan ( - ) 1
3 F Rebecca Murry 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: John M. Gilchrist ( - ) 1
4 F Sarah Murry 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Dr. Benjamin Burrell (Abt 1791-1832) 1 Marr: 1814 12
5 F Jane Murry 1 2
Born: - Westmoreland Co, PA Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: John Carpenter ( - ) 1 13 14 15
6 M Gen. James Murry 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Priscilla Schaeffer ( - ) 1
General Notes: Husband - Jeremiah Murry
He came to Pennsylvania from Ireland in 1784, founded the town of Murrysville, Westmoreland County, built the mill there and accumulated a large amount of land in Westmoreland and Allegheny counties.
He was a native of Ireland, immigrated to America prior to the Revolutionary war and settled in Franklin township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he remained until his death. Besides farming he also dealt in merchandise, and built a saw and grist mill on Turtle creek. He was a prominent business man, a democrat and served his township as justice of the peace. The ancestors of the Murrays were relatives of the ancestors of Andrew Jackson in Ireland.
The town of Murrysville, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was laid out by Jeremiah Murry, who on leaving the Emerald Isle had dropped the patronymic "Mc" from his name. He had the lots surveyed and the town regularly laid out as soon as the Pittsburgh and New Alexandria turnpike (which ran through it) was located, and which was before 1821. Murry came to America about 1781 (then in his twenty-second year), and resided a few months in the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania. He then crossed the mountains on foot as a peddler, with his pack on his back, and came to "Anderson's block-house," in this region, where he halted. Having disposed of his wares with great profit, he was in search of land, of which he sought a tract both eligibly located for a farm and a mill-site. On arriving at the brow of the hill overlooking the valley of Turtle Creek, he noted the grand mill-site and the beautiful location of the land, all covered with a dense forest. He went down to the stream, and carefully examined the creek and the land contiguous to it, and then walked to Pittsburgh, to the government land-office, got his patent, and located his large body of splendid land. He and a man named Cole (a hunter, whose cabin was destroyed by the Indians) were the first settlers in that section. Murry at once put up a cabin (in which he had a little store) on the bank of the creek, on the site where the United Presbyterian Church was later located. On the building of the turnpike he established the town, and built a brick house in which Mrs. Dr. J. S. Murry later resided, the first house erected in the place. He kept store all his life. [HWC 1882, 617]
About 1830, he became so afflicted by rheumatism that he could not go up and down stairs. It is said that a white mule that he owned was taught to kneel for him to mount when he wished to ride. His second wife assumed chief care of the business and made the long journey of 27 miles back and forth to Pittsburgh for supplies.
General Notes: Wife - Ann Montgomery
from Chester Co, PA
1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 618.
2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part I (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 667.
3 Elizabeth M. Davison and Ellen B. McKee, Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and Vicinity (Wilkinsburg, PA: The Group for Historical Research, 1940), Pg 68.
4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 617.
5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 561.
6 Elizabeth M. Davison and Ellen B. McKee, Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and Vicinity (Wilkinsburg, PA: The Group for Historical Research, 1940), Pg 65.
7 Elizabeth M. Davison and Ellen B. McKee, Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and Vicinity (Wilkinsburg, PA: The Group for Historical Research, 1940), Pg 66.
8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 183.
9 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 651.
10 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 618, 651.
11 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 511.
12 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 333.
13 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 217.
14 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 95.
15
John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1381.
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