Individual Details

Received by experience into the membership of the Hardeman Primitive Baptist Church on 24 Oct 1831. He was excommunicated on 9 May 1840. [He joined the Methodist Church].

Andrea did not list sources for his information on Charles Murphy. His first wife said to be Eliza Word, daughter of Joyce Allen who married Robert Word. The Words lived in Cass Co GA. Charles and Eliza had children:
Laura Jane, b. 6 May 1835, d. 9 Aug 1836
Eliza Caroline b. 22 Oct 1839, d. 4 Jan 1917 - raised by her maternal grandmother and with Joyce Word in the Cass Co GA census, 1850, p.176, household 1073. Eliza Caroline married Milton Anthony Candler in 1856. She was the only child of Charles to survive infancy. There is a copy of a DAR Supplementary application for a Candler descendant giving Roger Murphy [Junior] born 1767 as the Revolutionary Soldier - I believe it was his father who served.

1840 Census. DeKalb Co, GA
Charles Murphey: 1m age 40-50. 1f under 5. 1f age 20-30.

Charles married second on 6 June 1847 to Mrs. Catherine Anderson McCoy, widow of James McCoy. She was born 15 Oct 1816 and died 18 Nov 1852, soon after the birth of son Charles. Their children were:
Virgil Word Murphy b. 12 Apr 1848, d. 19 May 1848
Infant son b. & d. 4 Jul 1849
Infant daughter b. 13 Dec 1851, d. 16 Dec 1850 [obviously one of these years is an error]
Charles A. Murphy b. 6 Mar 1852, d. 16 Sep 1852

1850 DeKalb Co GA, Decatur, p.198
Charles Murphy, Lawyer, age 50, b. SC
Catherine, age 33, b. SC
Likely her children: Elizabeth McCoy age 14, William McCoy age 12, John J. McCoy age 12 - all born in GA. Also Thos. Sikes, Merchant, age 58 & Lewis Tuggle age 16

Charles Murphy was a member of the US Congress from 1851 to 1856. He served in the House of Representatives from Georgia's 4th District.

Crespo gives two dates of death for Charles Murphy: 16 Sep 1852 and 16 Jan 1861 - the latter is correct as below.

1860 Census. Panthersville District, DeKalb Co, GA, Hh 883
Charles Murphey, age 60, Attorney at Law. Value of property $7300. Value of personal estate $35,700. Born SC
James McCoy, 18, Student, b. SC

Quotes in letter from J. Edd Hill in the Andrea file:
BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY AMERICAN CONGRESS
Charles Murphy, Rep. from Georgia; born near Anderson, SCm 9 May 1799; attended the country school; studied law, admitted to the Bar in 1825, and commenced practice in Decatur, GA; Clerk of Superior Court of DeKalb Co GA 1825-27. Member Congress 4 Mar 1851 - 3 Mar 1852. Died 16 Jan 1861; internment Decatur Cemetery
Files of Pythagoras Lodge #41:
Charles Murphy died 16 Jan 1861, aged about 62. Died at the residence of his son-in-law M. A. Chandler. He was a native of Greenville Dist SC and moved to DeKalb Co GA 1824.

1860 Census, DeKalb Co GA, Panthersville District; p.377, Household 884:
Charles Murphy, age 60, Attorney at Law, b. SC; John McCoy age 18, a student b. in GA [John's age was obviously wrong in 1850]

FamilySearch.org. Notebook at the Atlanta History Ceneter, Records from Fulton Co. Written by hand, "From Emory Univ File, Southern Confereacy, (Weekley), Mar 6, 1861 - Dec 25, 1861.
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Written in margin: Born in Greenville dist. S.C. & came to DeKalb Co. in 1824.
Hon. Charles Murphy, d. 1/16/1861. Res. DeKalb Co
Born in S.C. and when upwards of 30 yrs of age settled in DeKalb. He first filled the ofc of Clerk of the Court of Ordinary, next that of Clerk of the Superior Court and about 1834 was admitted to the bar. He frequently represented DeKalb in both branches of the Gen. Assembly. In 1850 he was a delegate to the Ga. convention and voted in favor of the Compromise Acts of that year. In 1851 he was elected to the House of Reps. in Congress and served 2 years. Was a delegate to the convention which passed the Ordnance of Secession but died the day the convention assembled.

Birth	9 May 1799	Pendleton District, South Carolina
Marriage	Ca 1833	Eliza Word
Marriage	6 Jun 1847	DeKalb County, Georgia - Catherine Anderson
Death	16 Jan 1861	DeKalb County, Georgia
Burial		Decatur Cemetery, DeKalb County, Georgia

Spouse	Eliza Word ( - 1840)
Child	Laura Jane Murphy (1835 - 1836)
Child	Eliza Caroline Murphy (1839 - 1917)

Spouse	Catherine Anderson (1816 - 1852)
Child	Virgil Word Murphy (1848 - 1848)
Child	(Son) Murphy (1849 - 1849)
Child	(Daughter) Murphy (1850 - 1850)
Child	Charles A. Murphy (1852 - 1852)

Father	ROGER MURPHY (1767 - 1854)
Mother	Nancy Wilson (1771 - 1854)
Sibling	William Ezekiel MURPHY (1791 - 1867)
Sibling	BRIDGET "Biddie" MURPHY (1795 - 1822)
Sibling	John MURPHY (1797 - 1858)
Sibling	Mary MURPHY (1801 - )
Sibling	Moses MURPHY (1802 - 1870)
Sibling	Lucinda MURPHY (1804 - )
Sibling	Elizabeth J. "Betty" MURPHY (1806 - 1860)