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Mar 12, 2015 · Audie Murphy, a Texas Hero. Audie Leon Murphy was born in the village of Kingston, Hunt County, Texas (north of Greenville) in 1925 to Emmett Berry and Josie Bell Killian Murphy, a family of sharecroppers. Audie was the sixth of twelve children. His father abandoned the family when Audie was eight and his mother died when he was a teenager.
Apr 26, 2021 · Josie Bell Murphy formerly Killian. Born 28 May 1891 in Texas, United States. Ancestors. Daughter of Jefferson Davis Killian and Sarah Elizabeth (Gill) Killian. Sister of Jenne (Killian) Patterson, Thomas Killian, Mattie Killian, Eula Lee Killian, Charlie Killian, Nettie Mae Killian, Minnie Killian, Arthur Killian, Clara Inez (Killian) Myers ...
- Female
- May 28, 1891
- Emmett Berry Murphy
- May 23, 1941
Born Audie Leon Murphy on June 20, 1924 to sharecropper Emmett Berry Murphy and Josie Bell Killian in Kingston, Texas, he was the seventh of twelve children. As a boy, Audie was shy, a loner and given to bursts of temper and radical mood swings. His father drifted in and out of their lives, and finally, abandoned them altogether.
May 28, 2016 · Josie Bell. Killian. Murphy. Mother of the Audie Murphy the actor and medal of honor recipient. birth: 23 May 1891 — Farmersville, Texas death: 23 May 1941 — Farmersville, Collin, Texas burial: 24 May 1941 — Farmersville, Texas parents: Jeff D Killian, Sarah Gill spouse: Murphy record title: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 name: Josie Murphy death...
May 23, 2018 · Death: May 23, 1941 (49) Farmersville, Collin County, Texas, United States (Pneumonia) Place of Burial: Collin County, Texas, United States. Immediate Family: Daughter of Jefferson Davis Killian and Sarah Elizabeth Gill Killian. Wife of Emmett Berry Murphy. Mother of Elizabeth Corinne Burns; Ariel June Van Cleve; Charlston Emmett Murphy; Vernon ...
- May 28, 1891
- Collin County, Texas, United States
- Greenville, Hunt County, Texas, United States
Aleo cemetery, officially known as Prairie Grove cemetery, is the final resting place of Audie Murphy's beloved mother Josie Bell Killian Murphy and her parents Jefferson and Sarah Killian. The cemetery is located just south of Farmersville, Texas. Josie Murphy passed away on May 23, 1941 after a lingering illness when Audie was 16 years old ...
Audie was the seventh born child of a total of twelve children born to Emmett Berry Murphy and his wife Josie Bell Killian in Kingston, Texas. The Murphys were sharecroppers of Irish descent. As a boy, he chopped cotton for one dollar a day and was noted for his feats of derring-do and his accuracy with a gun.
