History of Murfreesboro, (Hertford County) North Carolina United States of America

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William Law Murfree, author, was born in Murfreesboro, N.C., July 19, 1817; son of William Hardy and Elizabeth Mary (Maney) Murfree, and grandson of Col. Hardy Murfree. He removed to Tennessee with his parents about 1823, was graduated at the University of Nashville in 1836 and studied law. He was admitted to the bar, and practised in Franklin, Nashville, and Murfreesboro, Tenn. He was married, Nov. 22, 1843, to Fanny Priscilla, daughter of David Dickinson of Murfreesboro, Tenn. He lost his fortune during the civil war and in the financial panic of 1873, and in 1881 removed with his family to St. Louis, Mo., where he devoted himself to professional and literary work. He edited the Central Law Journal in St. Louis, 1886-88. Owing to the loss of his eyesight he relinquished active pursuits in 1889 and returned to his home at Murfreesbero, Tenn., where he spent the rest of his life. He contributed sketches of life in Mississippi and Florida and papers on the political and industrial status of the South to leading magazines, also on legal subjects to law journals, and is the author of several notable law-books, including: A Treatise on the Law of Sheriffs (1884); Official Bonds (1885), and Practice before the Justice of the Peace (1886). He died in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Aug. 23, 1892.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Murfreesboro, (Hertford County) North Carolina

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