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| One of the many obituaries found among Belle Tisdale's papers. This one was found on page 4 of the Sunday, May 26, 1901 Times-Picayune newspaper. |
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MURRAY - On Saturday, May 25, 1901, ELIZABETH SHEMWELL, widow of the late T. F. Murray, aged sixty-two yeears. Funeral will take place from St. Stephen's Church This Evening at 3:30 o'clock.. Interment private.
Elizabeth Shemwell Murray was buried in Lafayette Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Louisiana, according to the Loisiana State Museum Historical Center Cemetery Records. She was born in 1838 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Martha Sinnot and Harrison Higgs Shemwell. She married Thomas Murray (1807-1878) in 1836. They had four chilldren, Elizabeth, Allen James, Frank H. and Mary Alice. (Family Search website)
This was all I was able to find out about her. In Aunt Lee's photo album there is a cabinet photo of a man identified on the back as "Uncle Allen Shemwell." On the Family Search website he is listed as Allen James Shemwell, born in 1840 in New Orleans, Louisiana. On January 30, 1883, around the time when this photo was made, he married Louise H. Wood (1847-1925). He died 12 January 1892 and was buried in Lafayette Cemetery Number 1. His parents were Harrison Higgs Shemwell and Martha Sinnot. So it appears he was Elizabeth's brother. We still don't know how they were connected to the Tisdale family.
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| Allen James Shemwell 1840-1892 |
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