Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1900 — Death of Mrs. Thos. Murphey. [ARTICLE]

Death of Mrs. Thos. Murphey.

Mrs. Jeunie Murphey, wife of | Thomas Murphey, died last Saturday morning, Mar. 31st. at their home about a mile northwest of Surrey. She had been sick for quite a long time with kidney trouble and dropsy. She had lately been seemingly much better and only this morning she was up and ate breakfast with the family. She then took some medicine and laid down. Soon after one of the family went to her side and found 1 her her dead. She and her husband have lived in that locality for about 40 years. The funeral was held at St. Augustine’s Catholic chnrch, in town, Sunday afternoon.