IN MEMORY OF LAFAYETTE MURRY
Lafayette Murry died July 11, 1924 in his home at Vichy after an illness of six weeks with bronchitis and complications. Age 89 years, 10 months and 13 days. Deceased leaves a wife and three children--W.S. Murry, St. James, Mrs. W.Z. Wills, Belle, and Mrs. Lida Smith of Odell, Texas. The remains were buried at High Gate July 13th. Rev. Spurgeon conducted the services, Mr. S.G. Licklider was in charge as undertaker. A very large attendance witnessed the sad rites. We extend sympathy.
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Online DC #20925 shows Lafayette Murry, born Aug 28, 1834 in TN. Married at death to Permelia Murry. Father listed as Wm. Murry on DC. [History of Maries Co shows Thomas Murry as father] Died July 11, 1924 in Johnson Township, Maries Co, MO from Ulceration of Stomach with Chronic Nephritis. Lilly Wills, Belle, MO, informant on DC. Burial in High Gate [Baptist] Cemetery on July 13, 1924. (brother to Margaret Louisa Murry Neeper)***************************************
From History of Maries Co, Mo by Everett M. King, page 524: Permelia Harrison, who was born March 4, 1842, married Lafayette Murry, who came here as a child in 1838. His father, Thomas Murry, was a boatbuilder and worked at his trade over a wide territory; his mother was a Noblett. The family evidently lived in Tennessee. When it was decided they should move to their relatives here a date in the future was set when the father would meet his wife and children in St. Louis and accompany them to their new home. The wife and children were there on time, but no tidings were ever received of the father. While waiting for his appearance, his wife, too, sickened and died, leaving her two children among strangers.

Relatives brought them here where they grew to man and womanhood and lived the remainder of their lives. In his youth and early manhood 'Lafe' Murry was one of the old-time oxteam freighters from this county to St. Louis, taking from two to three weeks to make the round trip. He later farmed on the Bourbeuse and operated power machinery of all kinds, dying at Vichy July 11, 1924. Mrs. Murry survived her husband until January 8, 1936. Lafayette and Permelia Murry were the parents of three children living to maturity, of whom two, William S. of St. James, and Lida, wife of A. J. Smith of Mount Vernon, Texas, survive. The third child, Lillie, wife of W. Z. Wills of Belle, who was born April 17, 1872, died at Belle April 26, 1936, also leaving three children by a prior marriage: Mrs. Myrtle Carter and Mrs. N. T. dark, both of Kansas City, Missouri, and William Gibbons of Fort Peck, Montana.
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Home in 1920: Johnson, Maries, Missouri
Lafayette Murray 85 mar. TN
Cana/Cora? Permela Murray 77 wf mar. MO

Home in 1910: Johnson, Maries, Missouri
Lafayette Murry 75 mar1 52y TN
Permelia C Murry 68 wf mar1 52y 6/3 ch MO

Home in 1900: Johnson, Maries, Missouri
Lafayett Murry 65 Aug 1834 mar 42y TN
Permelia C Murry 58 wf Mar 1842 6/3 ch MO
Nancy J Harrison 85 mil May 1815 wd 8/5 ch KY
Warren M Stoaks 12 m/w nephew Nov 1887 sgl MO

1890 Veteran's Schedule [Civil War], Maries Co, Johnson Twp, MO: Lafayette Murry, Private, Co I Co 32 MO Inf.

Home in 1880: Johnson, Maries, Missouri
Lafayette Murray 47 mar. TN
Permelia C. Murray 36 wf mar. MO
Lilly M. Murray 11 dau MO
William M [Wm. Smith] Murray 7 son MO
Andrew J. Smith 22, mar. farm hand MO
Leda L. Smith, 16, wf mar. MO [d/o Lafe & Permelia]

Home in 1870: Jefferson, Maries Co, MO
Lanes Prairie Post office
Lafett Murry 35, m/w, TN
Permilda C Murry 27, f/w, MO
Lida L Murry 6, f/w, MO
Lilly M Murry 1, f/w, MO

Home in 1860: Johnson, Maries Co, MO
Avery Post office
L Murray 26, male, TN [Lafayette]
Permelia Murray 18, female, MO
Louisa Murray 23, female, TN

Home in 1850: District 24, Crawford, MO #102
Andrew Moorland 32 male TN
Mary Moorland 23 female MO
Sarah Ann Moorland 9 female MO
Elizabeth Moorland 7 female MO
John Moorland 4 male MO
George Moorland 2 male MO
Willson Moorland 4/12 male MO
*Lafaette Murry 16 male TN
Louisa Murry 14 female TN
George Moorland 75 male Maryland
Note: Surname should read: Moreland
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From History of Cole, Moniteau, Morgan, Benton, Miller, Maries and Osage Counties, Missouri, 1889: LaFayette Murry is a farmer of Johnson Township, Maries Co., Mo., and was born in Monroe County, Tenn., in 1834. His parents were Thomas and Nancy (Noblett) Murry; the former, who was of Irish parentage, was a shoemaker by trade, and followed flatboating to New Orleans.

In 1839 he made a trip to New Orleans, and was to meet his family (who were to come to Missouri with Mrs. Murray’s father, William Noblett) at St. Louis. The family afterward concluded to cross the river at Cape Girardeau, and came to what is now Maries County. Not finding his family at St. Louis, Mr. Murry wrote back to his friends in Tennessee to learn their whereabouts, but before he received sufficient information, as was learned some years after, he is supposed to have met his death on the American Bottoms, in Illinois. The mother died about 1843. La Fayette and one sister were the only children, of whom the former was the elder. He received a limited common-school education, and, upon the death of his mother, was bound to Andrew Moreland, an uncle, with whom he lived until twenty-one. He was then employed in hauling iron from the Meramec Iron Works for several years.

In 1858 he married Permelia, daughter of William and Nancy Harrison, early settlers of Maries County, Mo., where they still live. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Murry, three of whom are living. Since his marriage, Mr. Murry has resided in Johnson Township with the exception of one year spent in Jefferson Township. He owns 120 acres of land, nearly all of which is under cultivation, and for the past fifteen years he has also been engaged in the saw-mill and thrashing business. During the late war he served over four months in Company I, Thirty-second Missouri Infantry, and was discharged in December 1862, on account of disability. He is a Democrat in politics, and is a member of St. James Post, G. A. R. Mrs. Murry has been a member of the-Baptist Church for many years; she is a native of Maries County.