Seeking information about great-grandfather

Could you give us his name and where in TN he lived?  If his name was a common one, it would help those of us who research to know the name of his wife and/or names of at least some of his children.

Dear Ms. Murray,

Thank you for posting your request on History Hub!

We searched the National Archives Catalog and located the Population Schedules for the 1880 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1890 Census; the Population Schedules for the 1900 Census, and the Population Schedules for the 1910 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1920 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1930 Census, and  the Population Schedules for the 1940 Census in the Records of the Bureau of the Census (Record Group 29) that may contain information about your Thomas Murray   Some of these schedules have been digitized in part.  The 1940 Census  schedules are digitized and available using the Catalog. See NARA’s 1940 Census Records web page for more information.  For access to the non-digitized schedules, please contact the National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference (RDT1) via email at archives1reference@nara.gov. 

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We suggest that you search the FamilySearch index for Tennessee Births and Christenings, 1828-1939 and/or contact Tennessee State Library and Archives to request a record search for your relatives.  In addition, the FamilySearch Research wiki for Tennessee Vital Records may be helpful.

We hope this is helpful. Best of luck with your family research!

Hi Melissa

Welcome to History

I found your family in the 1930 census

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SPH7-Q55 ll

Alice Lane

Research Volunteer

Hi Melissa,

I found Oather (Arthur Murrary) on findagrave.com

Mother was Mary Tharp.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98512781/arthur-murray

George Edd Murray

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199572723/george-edd-murray

The 1940 Census shows Maud Murray as a widow with three more children

making the total 11...so Thomas Murray would have to have died

sometime between 1937 and 1940

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4H3-QGV

Alice Lane

Research Volunteer

Hi Melissa,

It looks that this is your Thomas Murray

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96077814/thomas-newton-murray

His parents Thomas N. Murray and Martha J. Troy got married on 26 January 1888 in Marion County, TN.

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1169/images/VRMUSATN1780_070593-00105?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true…

There is just one problem, that in accordance to his death certificate Thomas was married with Jessie Sexton Murray. So did he and Maude had a divorce or it was just a wrong report?

This is a tree on ancestry that might be of interest for you:

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/116986769/person/210153676313/facts

Maybe it helps.

Sabine