Owen Block
121-127 Chestnut Street
Evansville, Indiana
4 April 2015
One of the few single women to live in the Owen Block during
the first 20 years of its existence was Mrs. Belle Murray, wife or widow of
Enos Murray of Owensboro, Kentucky. When
or if they they married is unknown. Belle, age 31, and her daughter Minnie, age
10, first appear on the 1880 Daviess County, Kentucky census. By 1886, they are
living in Evansville, where a new items stated Minnie Murray of Evansville had
been visiting her father, Enos, a railroad agent in Owensboro.[1]
Belle, a
widow, and Minnie lived at 515 Upper 1st Street in Evansville 1899-1900.[2]
The 1900 Vanderburgh County census lists Belle's occupation as modiste, or
dressmaker. A brief news item in an Evansville newspaper in 1902
announced that Mrs. Belle Murray had moved her family to the Owen flats.[3]
From 1902 through 1907, the Murrays lived at 125 Chestnut Street and later
moved next door to 127 Chestnut Street.
By 1903 Mrs.
Belle Murray and her daughter had moved away from the Owen Block. When she died
in January 1926, she was living in the Harrison Apartments at 626 S. 1st
Street. The funeral was in her home with
the Rev. Powell, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, officiated. Belle's survivors
included her daughter, Minnie, and two sisters living in Owensboro. She was
buried at Locust Hill Cemetery.
Minnie
Murray continued to live in Evansville, where she had a distinguished career in
the trust department of Old National Bank and was a prominent member of the
Altrusa Club of Evansville. Miss Minnie Murray, 75, died at the Rathbone Home
in February 1948 and was buried at Locust Hill Cemetery.
[1] "Personals,"
Evansville Journal, 22 Jul 1886, p. 5
[2]
1899 Evansville City Directory and 1900 Vanderburgh County, Indiana census, p.
2B, E.D. 88, lines 51-55, ancestry.com, accessed 3 Feb 2015.
[3] "Personals," Evansville
Journal-News, 13 Feb 1902, p. 7.
Published 13 April 2015, Rambling Thoughts ... Out of My Mind, http://brendasopinions.blogspot.com/
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