Robert Murphy
Among the early settlers of Bratton township was Robert Murphy, who came in Kentucky in 1805, and settled on George's creek, a short distance below Tranquility, built his cabin, commenced clearing his land and lived there until 1818, when he purchased the property now owned by Robert and Benjamin Murphy, on the road from Newport to May Hill, one and a half miles from the latter place. He married Miss Elizabeth Clifford, of Flemingsburg, Ky., in 1798. They reared a family of eleven children, seven sons and four daughters. Mr. Murphy died in 1852.
Robert Murphy, Jr., now owns the property on which his father lived thirty-two years. Benjamin Murphy, brother of Robert Jr., is now living at the advanced age of eighty years, on a part of the original homestead. He married Miss Cynthia Washburn, of Highland county, Ohio, in 1829. They have reared a family of eleven children, eight sons and three daughters.
From Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas of Adams County, Ohio; J. A. Caldwell, Publisher, Newark, Ohio.