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From her Texas certificate of death
Name: Fannie Murphy
Death Date: 27 Jul 1929
Death Place: Near Crockett, Houston, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: Colored
Death Age: About 70 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1859
Birthplace: Houston Co., Tex.
Marital Status: Widowed
Occupation: Housewife
Cemetery: Hall Cemetery
Burial Date: 28 Jul 1929
Informant: Sidny King, Crockett, Tex.
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Note from the creator of this page . . . In our family history is a story of someone known as Bass who was a very important figure in the childhood memories of Berta Mary Henry nee Sharp (1873-1955) . . . on the 1880 census, Berta Mary is enumerated in the household of her paternal grandma, Mahala Lee Sharp Hall nee Roberts (1816-1885) . . . as is 25-year-old Fannie Bass.
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December 2017 update . . . DNA testing has confirmed a connection between a descendant of Fannie's son, Andy Sharp, and other known descendants of Samuel Houston Sharp, son of Mahala Lee Sharp Hall nee Roberts.
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From her Texas certificate of death
Name: Fannie Murphy
Death Date: 27 Jul 1929
Death Place: Near Crockett, Houston, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: Colored
Death Age: About 70 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1859
Birthplace: Houston Co., Tex.
Marital Status: Widowed
Occupation: Housewife
Cemetery: Hall Cemetery
Burial Date: 28 Jul 1929
Informant: Sidny King, Crockett, Tex.
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Note from the creator of this page . . . In our family history is a story of someone known as Bass who was a very important figure in the childhood memories of Berta Mary Henry nee Sharp (1873-1955) . . . on the 1880 census, Berta Mary is enumerated in the household of her paternal grandma, Mahala Lee Sharp Hall nee Roberts (1816-1885) . . . as is 25-year-old Fannie Bass.
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December 2017 update . . . DNA testing has confirmed a connection between a descendant of Fannie's son, Andy Sharp, and other known descendants of Samuel Houston Sharp, son of Mahala Lee Sharp Hall nee Roberts.
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