Chronicles of Boone County

Murphy, Daniel

Item

Title

Murphy, Daniel

Gender

Male

Biography

NOTE: Enlisted in the 117th, Co. at Lexington, 1864. Mustered out at Brownsville, TX; 10 Aug 1867. Service record states birthplace as Bourbon Co (residence at time of enlistment) Volunteer enlistment record lists Boone Co. as birthplace. Slaveholder filed compensation claim in 1866, stated he was owner from "prior to beginning of the late rebellion up to the time of enlistment" no mention of previous slaveholder. William B. Murphy of Walton had a male slave, age 9 (b. ca. 1841) on the 1850 U. S. Federal Census Slave Schedule in Boone County. Daniel's widow Sallie Murphy took pension in KY 18 Jan 1909

Member

Murphy family

Birth date

circa 1842

Place of birth

Boone County (Ky.)

Spouse(s)

unknown, Sallie

Death date

30 Dec 1908

Military service

117th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry

Allegiance

United States of America

Place of enlistment

Lexington (Ky.)

Service began

1864

Service ended

10 Aug 1867

Mustered out at Brownsville (Tex.)

Brownsville (Tex.)

Relationship

Slaveholder(s): Spears, Jacob; Murphy, William B.

Spears, Jacob

Murphy, William B.

Source(s)

U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1863-1865

U.S., Descriptive Lists of Colored Volunteer Army Soldiers, 1864

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934

Population Schedules of the Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Slave Schedules

Item sets

AA--Enslaved--Kentucky--Boone County--M

Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Kentucky--Boone County--L-R