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Stephen May Murphy (Nelson County, Kentucky, merchant)

b. 1829? d. 1887-10-21

Nelson County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Son of F. G. Murphy and Mary E. Murphy. Married to Mary M. McMeekin Murphy in Nelson County, Kentucky, on January 24, 1854. Father of William W. Murphy, Belle Murphy, and John Q. Murphy. Merchant in Nelson County in 1850. Household owned sixteen enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1850. Retired merchant in Nelson County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in guardianship for an under-age brother-in-law, Lawrence McMeekin, in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 361A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 8 of microfilm.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Bardstown, District 2, p. 4.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Bardstown, District 2, p. 127A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Bardstown, p. 64B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Rolls #994050: Nelson County Marriages, p. 5.

Missouri Death Records. Jefferson City, MO: Missouri State Archives. St. Louis Deaths on Microfilm, p. 2770.

Citation

Murphy, Stephen May. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204594 (November 12, 2026).

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