I hope everyone has had a Happy Thanksgiving, and I'd like to wish a special happy birthday to my dad, Ted Callin today! Today we continue with two more Murphy daughters and their descendants - so let's get into it:
E. Nellie Murphy (1873–1958) was the fifth child of Henderson and Rebecca (Davidson) Murphy, born in Oregon in June 1873. She grew up in Oregon and Washington state, and she taught school for many years. Then, at 26 years of age, she married Andrew Mack Rayburn (1871–1940) in 1899.
Andrew was the son of John Barnett Rayburn (1837–1905) and Sarah Francis Frazier (1844–1915) and was born in West Virginia on 12 December 1837. He had also been a teacher, and after they married, he and Nellie homesteaded a wheat farm in 1902 near Hatton, Adams County, Washington. They had three sons and three daughters and raised them on their farm.
After several years of living in a two-room shack, Andrew had a two-story house built about 1917 in Othello on a promontory overlooking the wheat fields. Before the house was built, his daughter Hazel remembered "sleeping in a tent in summers, but the rest of the year we made do with sheet partitions in only two bedrooms." That house was purchased by C.C. Andrews and his son, Clyde, in 1974 and they moved it to their farm north of Bruce Siding, six miles northeast of Othello, where they planned to restore it.
Andrew died on 20 June 1940 in Othello, Adams County, Washington. Nellie sold the farm equipment and moved first to Walla Walla, Washington, then to Spokane. She lived in the Spokane area for 17 years and died there on 21 June 1958. She and Andrew are buried in Lind Cemetery in Lind, Adams County, Washington.
1. Wilma Lucretia Rayburn (1900–1990) was born on 6 September 1900 in Columbia County, Washington, and grew up on her family's farm in Adams County, Washington. She graduated from Cheney Normal and attended Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. She taught school in Oregon and Washington for several years.
In the mid-1940s, Wilma married James Wilson Rogers (1905–1987). James was born in Davis County, Iowa, on 14 March 1905 to James Nelson Rogers (1876–1910) and Lydia Mae Carter (1884–1958). He was a butcher in Ottumwa, Iowa, for many years and moved to Spokane after divorcing his wife of 15 years around 1945.
James died on 6 March 1997 in Spokane, and Wilma died there on 14 December 1990. They were survived by James's daughter from his first marriage.
2. Lawrence Mack Rayburn (1902–1977) was born on 25 July 1902 in Hatton, Adams County, Washington. After growing up in Adams County, he became an electrician working in Spokane in 1929 and 1930. He lived in West Allis, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin in the early 1930s, where he was listed in the City Directory as an engineering student.
While he was living in Milwaukee, he met Frances H Poepke (1904–2000), a stenographer from New London, Waupaca County, Wisconsin. Frances was the daughter of Joachina Ike Poepke (1877–1950) and Marguerette Knapstein (1876–1962) and was born on 24 July 1904.
Lawrence and Frances were married on 1 June 1935 and soon returned to Washington state, appearing in Port Angeles, Clallam County, on the 1940 Census. They lived mainly in the Bremerton area during the 1940s before relocating to Portland, Oregon, where they remained during the 1950s. Lawrence worked as an electrical engineer with the U.S. Department of Interior from 1949 to 1965, according to his obituary.
Lawrence died at age 73 in Desert Samaritan Hospital, Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona, and was buried in the Mountain View Funeral Home and Cemetery in that city. Frances died in Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, on 12 October 2000 at the age of 96. She was buried in Mesa with Lawrence. They are survived by a son, daughter, and at least three grandchildren.
3. Hazel Frances Rayburn (1904–1995) was born on 15 August 1904 in Hatton, Adams county, Washington. She graduated from Cheney Normal School and then from the University of Washington (Class of 1930). In 1926-27 she taught the seventh and eighth grades in Othello, and after graduating from University, she taught for 43 years in Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, retiring in 1969.
On 6 June 1958, Hazel married Harvey Hiscott Burgett (1912–1994). He was the son of William H Burgett (1874–1931) and Minnie Bertha Hiscott (1879–1964), born in Spokane on 25 November 1912. He worked as a warehouse-man for a paper company, and in road construction.
Harvey died in Spokane on 14 May 1994, and Hazel died there a year later on 17 November 1995. They were survived by nieces and nephews.
4. Clarence Howard Rayburn (1907–1983) was born in Hatton, Adams County, Washington, on 13 May 1907, and he grew up in Adams County. in 1926 he attended State College of Washington in Pullman, Whitman County, Washington, and he eventually became a research chemist.
Clarence's career took him east to Richmond, Virginia. On 25 December 1934, he married Dorothy Jean Cahill (1910–1996) in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. She was born on 6 April 1910 in Rockingham County, North Carolina, to Benjamin Marshall Cahill (1862–1926) and Katherine Louise Lewis (1866–1955).
The couple lived in Richmond together until Clarence's death on 3 July 1983. He was buried in Dale Memorial Park in Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, Virginia. Dorothy was living back in North Carolina when she died on 14 June 1996, and she was buried next to Clarence. They are survived by a daughter, two sons, and at least two grandchildren.
5. Lena Rayburn (1911–2003) was born on 31 January 1911 in Hatton, Adams County, Washington. She grew up in Adams County and moved to Spokane, where she was listed as a maid in the household of Herbert and Virginia Barrett in 1930.
On 25 July 1931, she married Carl Julius Roning (1911–1988), the son of Norwegian immigrants Elmer Roning (1873–1962) and Caroline "Carrie" Bjornes (1882–1961), born on 2 June 1911 in Spokane. Carl worked as a lineman for the telephone company, and they raised their son and daughter in Walla Walla and Spokane before Carl retired from Pacific Northwest Bell in 1971. They then settled in Loon Lake, Stevens County, Washington.
Carl died on 8 March 1988 in Loon Lake, at 76 years of age, and Lena died there at age 92 on 3 October 2003. They are survived by their daughter, four grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.
a. Clifford Mack Roning (1934–1993) was born on 12 March 1934 in Diamond Lake, Pend Oreille County, Washington. He grew up in Walla Walla and in Spokane, attending the University of Washington in 1956.
Clifford died on 15 October 1993 in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida. I believe he was married and may have had a daughter, but I was unable to find records to confirm these facts.
6. Warren Dale Rayburn (1916–1994) was born on 13 April 1916 in Sprague, Lincoln County, Washington and grew up in Adams County with his siblings. He married Ida Mary Roach (1917–1991) on 11 July 1939 in Kelso, Cowlitz County, Washington. She was born in Malden, Whitman County, Washington, on 1 February 1917, the daughter of John Davis Roach (1891–1933) and Katie M Evans (1892–1970).
Warren and Ida lived in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, in the late 1940s and moved to Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon, where they remained throughout the 1950s. They divorced on 26 October 1965. Ida remarried Calvin Vance Day (1911–2001) on 19 June 1966 in Kennewick, Franklin County, Washington. She died on 6 October 1991 in Richland, Benton County, Washington.
Warren died on 16 February 1994 in Wasco County, Oregon.
F. Carrie M Murphy (1878–1954) was born in Oregon on 2 October 1877. She married her first husband, Charles Jacob Diekman (1873–1942), in 1898. Charles was born on 14 June 1873 in Marshfield, Coos County, Oregon, to parents Charles W (1844–1916) and Lydia C Diekman (1851–1933). Charles was a carpenter and he and Carrie raised their children in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington. In the 1920s, Charles and Carrie moved down to California, and by 1940 had moved to Hawaii. Charles died there on 3 June 1942.
Carrie married her second husband, Thomas Henry Joy (1870–1963), at the end of 1946. She died in Honolulu on 9 March 1954, and Thomas died on 22 March 1963.
1. Warren William Diekman (1900–1957) was born on 22 November 1900 in Moro, Sherman County, Oregon. He grew up in the general Vancouver area and was briefly married to Lucy Alice McBroom (1890–1934) in the 1920s.
Lucy was the daughter of Walter Hill McBroom (1859–1932) and Lillian N Rasey (1867–1960), born on 14 May 1890 in Butterfield, Watonwan County, Minnesota. She had been married to Daniel Oliver Williams (1888–1976) from 1909 to 1915, and to William Raymond Leslie (1882–1955) from about 1915 to 1920. She remarried Mr. Leslie in 1929.
Warren worked in construction, working in Los Angeles and Hawaii. Prior to World War II, he was in charge of the installation of the fortifications at Midway and Pearl Harbor from 1938 to 1940 and was a construction superintendent for Waale-Camplan contractors during the war.
On 26 November 1938, Warren married Grace Lee Campbell (1909–1977), daughter of Robert Campbell (1874–1952) and Irene Katherine Campion (1878–1950), in Multnomah County, Oregon. They lived in Hawaii in 1940, but in 1942, Warren was seen listing Portland as his home of record.
Warren died in Portland on 28 April 1957 and was buried in Riverview Abbey Mausoleum and Crematory. Grace raised their two young daughters; she died in Portland on 3 February 1977 and was buried with Warren. They are survived by their daughters and three grandsons.
2. Virgil Otto Diekman (1903–1964) was born on 13 June 1903 in Moro, Sherman County, Oregon. He married Blanch Irene Joy (1903–1984) on 30 January 1922 in Chehalis, Lewis County, Washington. Blanch was born on 24 January 1903 in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington. She was the daughter of Thomas Henry Joy (1870–1963) and his first wife, Etta Clara Higdon (1877–1945). (This is the same Tom Joy who later married Virgil's mother, Carrie.)
Like his father and older brother, Virgil worked in construction. He and Blanch had a son, and lived in the Portland and Vancouver areas during the 1930s. They likely moved to follow Warren to Hawaii, arriving in 1937. In 1940, they were living in Honolulu, Hawaii, which is where Virgil died on 20 April 1964.
a. Dwaine Omer Diekman (1922–2000) was born on 10 September 1922 in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, and moved to Hawaii with his family in the mid-1930s. He worked as a branch manager of an appliance store in Kailua, Hawaii, for many years. Dwaine was married to
Kimie Taira "Peggy" Ishihara (1922–2003) from about 1955 to about 1960, and in 1962 he married Winifred M Magpiong (1922–1990) in Agana, Hagåtña, Guam.
Winifred died on 16 March 1990 in Otis, Lincoln County, Oregon; Dwaine died in Otis on 9 June 2000 at age 78. Her obituary suggests that she and Dwaine may have had two daughters, but I was unable to confirm whether they were his daughters or Winifred's daughters from her previous marriage.
3. Lois Carol Diekman (1911–?) was born on 15 September 1911 in Washington state and spent her early childhood in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington. She graduated from Glendale Union High School in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California in 1929 and married on 17 April 1930 in Los Angeles County, California, to Cecil William Swartz (1907–1990), the son of William Edgar "Willie" Swartz (1877–1934) and Addie Johnson (1878–1936). He was born on 31 July 1907 in Alderson, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.
Lois worked in the Burbank Unified School District for 28 years, managing the Children's Center programs at Emerson and Washington nursery schools. She became the supervisor of Emerson in 1947. In 1952 she was transferred to Washington, where she became the supervisor. In 1973, because of budget cutbacks, she became supervisor of both Washington and Emerson, and she retired in 1974.
Cecil died on 20 April 1990 in Los Angeles, and while I have a record placing Lois in Sun Valley, Los Angeles County, in 1992, I don't know for certain what happened to her after that.
4. Harold Elton "Red" Diekman (1913–1974) was born on 27 December 1913, in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington. He married Susanne Roberts Noyes (1923–2009) on 15 February 1942. Susanne was born on 2 March 1923, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Everett Noyes (1876–1952) and Lois Howard Brown (1888–1965). Being a military family the Noyes moved to Honolulu, where Susanne attended McKinley High School.
After they married, Red and Susanne had three children. In 1953, the family moved to Guam to participate in the post-war reconstruction of the island. Susanne worked as a school secretary for many years at Adelup Elementary School. In 193 they moved to Springdale, Washington, where they built their home and settled into the community She was the Springdale Town Clerk and served on the Springdale School Board.
He died on April 8, 1974, in Spokane, Washington, at the age of 60. Susanne died many years later on 26 January 2009. They were survived by two sons and a daughter, as well as nine grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.
a. Harold Elton "Hal" Diekman Jr (1943–2018) was born on 8 August 1943 Honolulu, Hawaii. Hal spent his childhood in the pacific islands but he graduated from Stoneham High School in Stoneham, Massachusetts, in 1961 while residing with his aunt and uncle. He graduated college from Lowell Institute in Lowell, Massachusetts, where he enjoyed rowing crew. He joined the United States Air Force in 1968 and began a twelve-year military career as an Air Weather Reconnaissance Officer.
Hal was married in 1971, and he and his new wife resided in Guam while Hal served as a "typhoon chaser." In 1975 the family transferred to Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Oklahoma. After leaving the military, the family relocated to Lawton, Oklahoma in 1982 where they raised their three children.
Hal died just last year on 26 December 2018 in Lawton and is survived by his wife, three children, and six grandchildren.
5. Diekman (1916–1916) Carried and Charles also had an unnamed baby daughter who died on 11 October 1916 in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington.
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There is one more Murphy child to cover, and my semester ends in a couple of weeks. Hopefully, we'll get back to a more regular schedule, soon.
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