TJ Murphy died on 29 Jun 1948 and is buried in Kilcrea Friary near Ovens.
Margaret Geany/ Geaney was from Glanmire. She married TJ Murphy in 1901. Prior to this she had emigrated to the USA, where she trained as a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, graduating in 1898. She was a friend of Diarmuid Lynch TD, who was also in New York in the 1890s. Margaret died on 5 Dec 1958 and was buried in Ballyluchra Cemetery, Glanmire with her 3 daughters, two of whom predeceased their parents. George Murphy (b1835 - d1917) emigrated from Ovens Co. Cork in the 1850s to Boston, where he worked as a carpenter. He joined the Union Army during the American Civil War , fighting for 3 years as an NCO with the Army of the Potomac. He was captured as a prisoner of war by Confederate Forces at the Battle of Gettysburg, but later returned under a prisoner exchange. A near neighbour of George's from Ovens, Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was a Confederate commander during the Civil War. He was an uncle to Fr. Patrick Bowen Murphy.
Diarmuid Lynch (b1878 – d1950) Sinn Fein TD, IRB member, Friends of Irish Freedom organiser in USA
Rev. Patrick Bowen (PB) Murphy , (b1850 - d1929) was a cousin of TJ Murphy. He was a Fenian, involved in the Canadian invasion, and a Chaplain in the US Army. Buried at St Josephs Cemetery, Cork. William Bowen Murphy , cousin of TJ Murphy and brother of P.B. Murphy. William B. Murphy became a writer for magazines and contributed to many New York and Boston newspapers. He served in the US Army under General Miles during the Geronimo uprising (Apr-Sep 1886), after which he was orderly sergeant in Battery 1, 4th Regiment of Artillery under General George W. Getty. Later a Sergeant in charge of the Metropolitan Parks Police of Boston.
Archival History Donated to Archives in 2024 by Colm O'Sullivan
CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
Scope and Content Photographs and documents relating to Thomas Joseph (TJ) Murphy and family/relations and friends.
Family/relations material relates mainly to Margaret Geaney/Geany wife of TJ Murphy, George Murphy, Rev. Patrick B. Murphy, William Bowen Murphy.
Also group photograph, engagement party for TJ Murphy and Margaret Geany featuring various members of Murphy family (Ovens) & Lynch family (Granig), and others, possibly taken by Jeremiah Aherne.
Desc. List. TJ Murphy and Family Archive
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