Muhlenberg County Kentucky
Cemeteries M
Murphey Cemetery
Murphey Cemetery 1978. Photo by Joetta Brown.
Location
Take US 62 west from Greenville to Kentucky 189, turn left. Go about 4 miles to the Greens Chapel Road and turn right. Go about 6 miles. The cemetery is located on the old Justus Murphey farm, 1.3 miles past Greens Chapel Church, and ¼ mile east of the road.
Burials
- Unnamed enslaved person. Inscription: Jesse Murphey Slave. Gravestone.
- Note: Gravestone placed after 1972 in memory of an unnamed enslaved person owned by Jesse Murphy.
- Laswell, Lena L. Died 30 June 1887, age 2 years. Daughter of D. & P. Laswell. Gravestone.
- Biographical: Daughter of Douglas Laswell & Prinsetta Spurlin.
- Lile, Nannie Pace. Born 1867. Died 1893. Gravestone.
- Biographical: Nannie Roma Pace, daughter of William Ledfeter Pace & July Ann Sherrod. Married T.J. Lile, 16 Oct 1884, in Muhlenberg County.
- Note: Gravestone placed after 1972 in memory of Nannie Pace Lile.
- Murphey, Claudie F. Born 31 Jan 1896. Died 17 Sept 1896. Gravestone.
- Biographical: Daughter of Samuel W. Murphey & Jackie L. Corley.
- Murphey, Fannie. Died 1822. Gravestone.
- Biographical: Fannie [surname unknown] was the first of Jesse Murphey.
- Note: Gravestone placed after 1972 in memory of Jesse & Fannie Murphey.
- Murphey, Jesse. Born 1781. Died 1846. Gravestone.
- Biographical: Jesse Murphey is a son of Thomas Murphey who died in Pitt County, North Carolina. Jesse married three times: 1) Fannie; 2) Mrs. Polly Cross Randolph, 4 Mar 1824, in Muhlenberg County; and 3[ Susannah Davis, 21 Sept 1837, in Muhlenberg County. (Mrs. Susannah D. Murphey married John Arnold, 7 Aug 1855, in Rockport, Indiana.) Jesse Murphey settled this land in 1805 and was one of the well-known early settlers of the area. The land is still owned by his descendants.
- Note: Gravestone placed after 1972 in memory of Jesse & Fannie Murphey.
- Murphey, Laurah. Born 22 Mar 1851. Died 25 Mar 1851, age 3 days. Gravestone.
- Biographical: Daughter of Thomas Murphey & July Ann Sherrod.
- Murphey, Poly Cross. Died 1836. Gravestone.
- Biographical: Polly Cross is the daughter of William & Rebecca Cross. She married 1) Robert Mason Randolph, 10 Nov 1809, in Muhlenberg County; and 2) Jesse Murphey, 4 Mar 1824, in Muhlenberg County.
- Note: Gravestone placed after 1972 in memory of Poly Cross Murphey.
- Murphey, Thomas. Born 22 Feb 1825. Died 9 Apr 1862. Gravestone.
- Biographical: Son of Jesse Murphey & Polly Cross. He married 1) Mary Ann Cooper, 6 June 1845; and 2) July Ann Sherrod, 21 Mar 1850, in Todd County, Kentucky.
- Murphey, Thomas C. Born 6 July 1861. Died 19 Apr 1883. Gravestone.
- Biographical: Thomas Columbus Murphey, son of Thomas Murphey & July Ann Sherrod.
- Murphy, Joseph Ray. Born 11 Mar 1935. Died 21 Oct 2016.
- Biographical: Son of Justus William Murphy & Alice Bell Crick. Born & died in Muhlenberg County. Never married. Lived most of his life on the farm where the Murphey Cemetery is located.
- Pace, Julia A. Born 20 Nov 1863. Died 18 Jan 1864. Gravestone.
- Biographicale: Daughter of William Ledfeter Pace & July Ann Sherrod.
- Pace, July A. Born 2 June 1831. Died 2 Apr 1880. Wife of W.L. Pace. Gravestone.
- Biographical: July Ann Sherrod, daughter of James Jolly Sherrod & Mary Thornsberry. She married 1) Thomas Murphey, 21 Mar 1850, in Todd County, Kentucky; and 2) William Ledfeter Pace, 7 Feb 1863, in Muhlenberg County. (William Ledfeter Pace is buried at Judges Chapel Cemetery in Christian County, Kentucky.)
- Randolph, W.O. Born about 1834. Died 1 Sept 1866. Co. K 11th Ky. Inf. Gravestone.
- Biographical: William Oates Randolph, born in Muhlenberg County, son of Ashford Dowden Randolph & Geraldine Mancrief Oates and the grandson of Robert Mason Randolph & Polly Cross.
- Spurlin, Francis. Born 17 Nov 1829. Died 7 Jan 1906. Gravestone.
- Biographical: Daughter of Jesse Murphey & Polly Cross. Married John Lindsey Spurlin, 4 Mar 1847, in Muhlenberg County.
- Spurlin, John L. Born 28 Sept 1822. Died 7 July 1866. Gravestone.
- Biographical: John Lindsey Spurlin, son of John Spurlin & Rebecca Utley. Married Frances Murphey, 4 Mar 1847, in Muhlenberg County. According to family tradition, he drowned in Murphey Lake trying to save a friend.
- Spurlin, T.F. Born 11 Mar 1848. Died 16 Nov 1890. Gravestone.
- Biographical: Theodore F. Spurlin, son of John Lindsey Spurlin & Frances Murphey.
- Gravestone Detail.
Lawson Murphy, Jean Wells, John Wells, Kevin Wells, Beth Jones, Joetta Brown, Dwayne Brown, Joy Ragland and Brenda Webster visited this cemetery on November 24, 2005.
Photos of gravestones by Joseph Dwayne Brown & Jean Wells, November 24, 2005
Contributed by Jean Wells.
Updated November 6, 2026.