According to her obituary, which ran in the Gilroy Advocate on 30 Apr 1881, Sarah's premature death occurred at early dawn on the 22nd of April, 1881. Sarah was the oldest daughter of William HANNA & Rebekah CRESSWELL Hanna. Her ancestors, on both paternal & maternal sides, were of the highest social & patriotic standing. Her maternal grandfather, Samuel CRESSWELL, was Adjutant General under Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812 and later in life served in the State Senate of Ohio.
Sarah was married to Hon. Judge John Murphy on 15 Oct 1872, and together they had three children. Her only daughter died at the age of eleven months, seventeen days.
Her obituary noted the following: "Her well-stored common sense, practical mind, her unvarying amiability of disposition, her proverbial sweetness of temper, her bondless benevolence and charity of heart, the stainless purity of her life, from childhood to girlhood to womanhood, at her own fireside, among her friends, anywhere, everywhere, was natural and unaffected. She loved everything and everybody that was pure and good, and had hatred only for impurity and sin. In all things she was natural and sincere. She loved her husband with the most sincere and unalloyed of human affection; she loved him as the pure and good wife loves her husband; she loved him as the father of her children; the love was mutual.
Sarah was married to Hon. Judge John Murphy on 15 Oct 1872, and together they had three children. Her only daughter died at the age of eleven months, seventeen days.
Her obituary noted the following: "Her well-stored common sense, practical mind, her unvarying amiability of disposition, her proverbial sweetness of temper, her bondless benevolence and charity of heart, the stainless purity of her life, from childhood to girlhood to womanhood, at her own fireside, among her friends, anywhere, everywhere, was natural and unaffected. She loved everything and everybody that was pure and good, and had hatred only for impurity and sin. In all things she was natural and sincere. She loved her husband with the most sincere and unalloyed of human affection; she loved him as the pure and good wife loves her husband; she loved him as the father of her children; the love was mutual.
According to her obituary, which ran in the Gilroy Advocate on 30 Apr 1881, Sarah's premature death occurred at early dawn on the 22nd of April, 1881. Sarah was the oldest daughter of William HANNA & Rebekah CRESSWELL Hanna. Her ancestors, on both paternal & maternal sides, were of the highest social & patriotic standing. Her maternal grandfather, Samuel CRESSWELL, was Adjutant General under Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812 and later in life served in the State Senate of Ohio.
Sarah was married to Hon. Judge John Murphy on 15 Oct 1872, and together they had three children. Her only daughter died at the age of eleven months, seventeen days.
Her obituary noted the following: "Her well-stored common sense, practical mind, her unvarying amiability of disposition, her proverbial sweetness of temper, her bondless benevolence and charity of heart, the stainless purity of her life, from childhood to girlhood to womanhood, at her own fireside, among her friends, anywhere, everywhere, was natural and unaffected. She loved everything and everybody that was pure and good, and had hatred only for impurity and sin. In all things she was natural and sincere. She loved her husband with the most sincere and unalloyed of human affection; she loved him as the pure and good wife loves her husband; she loved him as the father of her children; the love was mutual.
Sarah was married to Hon. Judge John Murphy on 15 Oct 1872, and together they had three children. Her only daughter died at the age of eleven months, seventeen days.
Her obituary noted the following: "Her well-stored common sense, practical mind, her unvarying amiability of disposition, her proverbial sweetness of temper, her bondless benevolence and charity of heart, the stainless purity of her life, from childhood to girlhood to womanhood, at her own fireside, among her friends, anywhere, everywhere, was natural and unaffected. She loved everything and everybody that was pure and good, and had hatred only for impurity and sin. In all things she was natural and sincere. She loved her husband with the most sincere and unalloyed of human affection; she loved him as the pure and good wife loves her husband; she loved him as the father of her children; the love was mutual.
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