Thomas Murtey
1864 - 1926 (62 years)
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Name Thomas Murtey [1, 2, 3, 4] Birth 11 Mar 1864 Lincoln, Logan County, IL. 
Gender Male Death 6 Jun 1926 Weeping Water, Cass County, NE Burial Oakwood Cemetery, Weeping Water, Cass County, NE Person ID I6945 1665 GOUGH/GOFF (US-MD-STM/US-VA-LOU) I-Y6902-A Last Modified 20 Oct 2023
Family Nancy Olive Hill, b. 12 Jan 1871, Marysville, Marion County, IA d. 22 Aug 1949, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, IA (Age 78 years)
Marriage 5 Oct 1892 Stockton, KS Children 1. Mabel Murtey, b. Sep 1893 d. 1969 (Age 75 years) ▻ Leon Olson Stoker m. 11 Aug 1917▻ Leon Olson Stoker m. 11 Aug 19172. Edwin Hill Murtey, b. 1896 d. 1896 (Age 0 years) 3. Dorothy Murtey, b. 31 May 1900, Weeping Water, Cass County, NE d. May 1987, New Castle, DE. (Age 86 years)4. Margaret Murtey, b. 31 May 1900, Weeping Water, Cass County, NE d. 17 Nov 1900, Weeping Water, Cass County, NE (Age 0 years)Family ID F2417 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Oct 2023
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Notes - GOOD BUSINESS MAN GONE
Thomas Murtey Was Sticken Very Suddenly Sunday Morning
Weeping Water has lost a good business man and associate and the banking world has lost a conservative coworker, who will be remembered for many a year.
Mr. Murtey had been in poor health for some weeks, but was attending to business at the First National Bank of which he was cashier, when about 8:30 Sunday morning he was bidding his little granddaughter good-bye out in the front yard, he was stricken by heart failure and peacefully passed to the great beyond.
Thomas Murtey was born at Lincoln, Ill., March 11, 1864, and died at Weeping Water, Nebraska, Sunday, June 6, 1926.
He came to Nebraska with his parents in 1871, they locating on a farm north of Wabash. In 1879, Mr. Murtey moved to Stockton, Kansas, where he was educated in the public schools there, and later completed his education in the University of Kansas, at Lawrence. After completing his work at the university, Mr. Murtey taught school near Salina, Kansas for one year and later engaged in the abstract business at Stockton. In the year 1887 Mr. Murtey returned to Nebraska and located at the old home near Wabash engaged in the conduct of a general store at that place, later going to St. Joseph, Mo., where he was engaged in bookkeeping for the firm of Tootle, Hosea Co.
In the year 1889, Mr. Murtey decided that the old home in Nebraska offed a greater opportunity to him and he came back to Weeping Water and entered the First National Bank, and on his 24th birthday, he was made cashier, which position he has since filled, being ranked as one of the ablest members of the banking profession in the state, and building his bank up to a high standard. While engaged in the conduct of te bank at Weeping Water, Mr. Murtey has also been a director of the City National Bank of Lincoln, one of the leading financial institutions in the state, and was also a stockholder in the Farmers State Bank of Rising City, Nebraska.
The deceased was married at Stockton, Kansas, October 5, 1892 to Miss Olive Hill, the young people returning to the home that had been prepared for the coming of the wife at Weeping Water. The wife and two daughters, Dorothy Fulkner, who is now enroute to Paris, France, and Mrs. L. O. Stoker of Rising City, Nebraska, survive the passing of this good man. There are also two grandchildren, Ann Stoker and Thomas Murtey Stoker of Rising City, survive the passing of Mr. Murtey.
Two brothers, James and Henry Murtey of Stockton, Kansas, also mourn the loss of their brother.
The funeral was held in Weeping Water on Wednesday, June 9th at 2 o'clock p. m., at the Congregational Church, Rev. G. R. Birch having the services in charge. Internment was in Oakwood Cemetery under a bower of flowers from his hosts of friends and business associates.
Mrs. Doris Cole Clapp sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," and "Rock of Ages," accompanied at the organ by Wilber Chenowith, of Lincoln, both friends of the family.
The pallbearers were Messrs. Frank J. Davis, L. P. Wolcott, J. M. Teegarden, Stanley Maly, W. H. Raymond and E. N. Munson.
Thomas Murtey was educated at the University of Kansas. He returned to Weeping Water in Cass Co., NE near where he lived with his parents before the family moved to Stockton, Kansas. He was the Cashier of the First National Bank of Weeping Water and a Director of City National Bank of Lincoln, NE.
Thomas was a successful banker and believed in education for women. My grandmother Mabel Murtey was an early female graduate of the University of Nebraska; graduated in 1915 I think. That was a time when women rarely went on to college. His other daughter Dorothy Murtey studied in France. My grandmother only had good things to say about her father and grandfather Murtey. She was very proud of being Irish and gave both of her children the middle name of Murtey.
1. Thomas Murtey 11 March 1864 - 6 June 1926 My gr. grandfather, son of James Murtey and Elizabeth Slattery, and brother to your James Murtey.
2. The two daughters of Thomas Murtey. My grandmother Mabel Murtey 3 Sept 1893 - 29 Jan 1969 and her younger sister Dorothy Murtey 1900-1985 (?) I have Dorothy's dates somewhere but cannot locate now.
[wendy Boddie Genelogy Family Tree.FTW]
B: Lincoln, Illinois
D: Stockton, KS--Weeping Water NE
Nebraska, Successful banker and believed in education for women. Marrie d 1892 Olive Hill in Stockton KS. Thomas was educated at the University of Kansas. He returned to Weeping Water in Cass Co, NE near where he l ived with his parents before the family moved to Stockton KS. He was th e cashier of the First National Bank of Weeping Water and a director of City National Bank of Lincoln NE
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