John Murphy Descendants from Omagh, County Tyrone Ireland, is a recording of American history disguised as the John Murphy family ancestry. Packed with stories reaching from the eastern shore to the western shore, John Murphy Descendents leads the reader from the emigration from Omagh, County Tyrone in Ulster to intersect with d’Armonds, Feslers, Skinners, Putnams, Thomases, and Waldos. A look back through the family tree uncovers some very interesting and well-known family members.
Many family stories tell the hardships of pioneering in new territories following Indian treaties. Personal narratives tell of fighting Indian, and the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, of traveling by ox-drawn wagon, leaving family and friends, and enduring locust invasion, flood and fire. A medical missionary tells of entertaining Mahatma Gandhi in India. A connection to United States President John Adams is noted. John Murphy Descendants from Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, reads like a good novel. The curse of “dry history” does not touch this book.
