
- Birth Date
- 4 September 1843
- Death Date
- 3 September 1889
- Gender
- Male
John Joseph Pledger Murphy
John's family is listed under his grandmothers' maiden name (Jeanes/Jeans) on both the PEF ledger and the 1868 Joseph S. Rawlins Company roster. He was traveling with his wife, Nancy. They dropped out of the Rawlins Company at Green River due to illness and joined up with the Gillespie Company shortly after to complete the journey.
Joseph S. Rawlins Company (1868)
- Age at Departure: 24
John Gillespie Company (1868)
- Age at Departure: 24
Sources
- 1870 Utah Census, Weber County.
- Captain John Gillespie, memorandum book (2), 1868.
- "Captain Joseph S. Rawlins, list of passengers, 1868." In Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains' accounts 1862-1868. (CR 376 8, Box 2, Folder 7)
- Find a Grave (Website)
- Jacobs, Zebulon, [Letter], in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 15 Aug. 1868, 3.
- Jacobs, Zebulon, to Brigham Young, 15 Aug. 1868, in Brigham Young, Office Files 1832-1878, reel 44, box 32, fd. 16.
- "Mrs. N. D. [N. V.] Murphy Called by Death," Ogden Standard, 24 June 1916, 8.
- Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger D, p. 83.