Artifacts

Portrait hung in the Back Home on Brand Road

Father of ______Back

Grandfather of James Cleveland Back, Wayne Back, Joe Bertram Back, Oscar Dennis Back

WWI August 5, 1918-January 6, 1919

U.S. Navy

Baker

  WWI Discharged December 17, 1918

PVT 1st Class, 54th Balloon Company

U.S. Signal Corps

 WWI Company K, 7thregiment; 3rd Division

Meuse-Argonne offensive; forward trench

November 11, 1918

WWI May 8, 1917-September 13, 1919

U.S. Navy

Submarine USSC-5, Canal Zone

 William was also known as Willie or W.O.

 W.O. born in Collin County in 1876 was a well-known farmer & business owner

Married in 1903

Jimmie was a Murphy school teacher

Sister of Comfort Allen McMillen

Widow of Thomas Moulden

Son, James Moulden brought his mother and sister to Murphy  

 Born in 1821

Wife of Comfort Allen McMillen

Moved from Arkansas to Texas in 1846

Had six children

  Born in 1818

Came to Murphy in 1846 driving an ox-driven wagon

Sheep herder, cattleman, farmer

Early physician in Murphy, Texas

Married Dorothy Murphy, daughter of William Murphy, namesake of Murphy

Had three children

Moved to Oak Cliff in later years and continued his career

His father and brother also physicians

 Dr. Dennis Miller with his wife Ruth Rossetter

Spent his retirement years with his wife in Dallas

Had five daughters

   Miller used this typewriter to type poems

Wrote poems about his mother, father, life, and death

  Miller wore glasses in most of his photographs

Pair purchases in Dallas

 Used magnifying glass to help with small print

  Book lists patients by year and amount paid for service

Expenses also listed for each year

Important document giving names of early citizens living in Murphy

   Ledger is 2” thick & partially bound in leather

Writing inside is pencil & hard to read

Fragile pages and binding 

  Gwen Durrant’s Bottles and Pottery Pieces from her Archaeology Digs

   Store located on the left side of the railroad tracks going north

 Carried a variety of items; like a general store

Note the Drug Store next door co-owned by Dr. Dennis Miller 

Laying track west from Wylie

 George McGuire with beard center of track in front of cart

 Brother Joe McGuire front right side of track

   Worn by freely roaming animals such as cows, sheep, goats, reindeer

Attached to leather collar

 Make animal easy to locate

 Usually made from plated sheet metal with clapper to make noise

   Often called butter crock made of glass

Convert cream into butter

Stirred with a wooden dasher

Clumps of butter rose to the top of churn

Remaining liquid buttermilk

   Some churns made of wood

Note the wooden dasher in glass crock

   Donated by Haker family

 Possibly used by Dr. William King

Was in Nelle King Turney’s home

 Today download forms from compute

   Collection of different forms used in business

  White blouse for woman; circa 1950s

Loose fitting garment covers body from neck to waist

 First time term used in 1870 as a “blouse for a young lady”

Resembles a shirt or smock

  Author: General Henry M. Robert; U.S. Army officer

 First published in 1876

 Guide to parliamentary procedure as rules of order for organization

Copy circa 1900 owned by Nelle King Turney

   Owned by Nelle King Turney

 Donated by Mrs. Haker

 Circa 1900

    Inside cover of the book of poems Robert Burns’ book of poems

 Includes photo of Robert Burns

    Copy owned by Nelle King Turney

Donated by Mrs. Haker

1902 copyright

 Picture from inside the book

  White in color and used for protection of the sun

Victorian period was 1837-1901, Era of Queen Victoria of England

 Called parasol when used for sun protection

 Parasol made from silk, cotton, lace, linen

Umbrella usually had a curved handle

These bonnets worn in Collin County

Used to keep the sun from tanning the skin

 Note the different patterns

 Farmer’s wife made bonnets from scraps and used cardboard to make “slats” so bonnet kept its shape

     White gown or dress worn by boy

 Circa 1940s

 White cotton; hand-made; elastic waist

Worn under pants for a boy or skirt for a girl

Loose, full, gathered at the knee or ankle  

   Capes often worn over overcoats during Victorian Era

Light weight capes often worn over evening dress for warmth

Black Victorian Cape for a child about 1900

Decorated with rosettes around neck and ribbons

  1827 invented by Hannah Lord Montague, but collars worn as early as Middle Ages

Collars can fasten in front or back with a small button

 Usually placed over a dress or blouse “dress it up”

1940s style collar donated by Mrs. Haker

   Made of red felt from a circular pattern

Popular in 1950s

 Often had a cutout of a poodle on the bottom of the skirt

   Size 8 white cotton blouse

  Made in Macon, Georgia

 Letter discussing the quilt included with history of the quilt

Purchased at an Estate Sale in Plano 2015

Pomegranate pattern with red and green on white background

Pomegranates known as the “love apple”; quilt sometimes called Marriage Quilt or Fertility Quilt 

  Sun Hat Boy or Little Dutch Boy Pattern

  Quilt Top (incomplete quilt)

 Pattern of quilt is Dresden Plate

·Dresden, Germany made fancy dinnerware with flowers, fruits, & foliage, thus the Dresden Plate pattern evolved 

  Made by the women of the Wylie Assembly of God Church

Given to the Paul Brumit family after their home burned in 1954

 Made for a double bed from the discarded men’s wool suit pants

Red flannel was used for the backing and red yarn for typing the quilt top to the bottom of the quilt

 Britches quilts were also fashioned by women and girl friends for the Texas cowboy

Handkerchief used by 

 This quilt features blocks of embroidered state flowers  of the 48 contiguous United States.  As Alaska and Hawaii became states  in 1959 it is estimated that the quilt was made in the late 1950's or  early 1960's, making it over 60 years old.  The quilt was made by a lady  who lived in a town in northern Illinois about 90 miles southwest of  Chicago.  The quilt has never been used, displayed, or washed.  It was  given to me by my mother, who was a cousin of the quilter's daughter.

Peg Oppenhuis

 Murphy resident  

  Donated by Marcia Jowers

Used in Collin County

Held cotton  

  Circa 1860s

Used to display quality of cotton

Used at depot in 1880’s so buyers could see the quality of cotton grown on a particular farm

  Donated by Dessie Haker

One handkerchief used by Nelle King Turney and has T initial

Kerchiefs were used as early as First Century BC

1700s fashionable wealthy ladies took to theaters

Used to wipe tears, runny nose, mop a sweaty brow

  Donated by Lolisa Laenger

 Head scarf replaced a hat

 Worn to hide hair or to keep hair in place

Popular in 1930-50s 

   Comfort and Lydia McMillen Home Place
 

  · South Murphy Road near the Herring-Hogge Cemetery

  North Maxwell Creek 

   W.O. Daniel Family lived on North Murphy Road

Near Daniel Crossing subdivision

    1980s photo