Adam Taylor Murphy

From The Story of Our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers:
Adams T. Murphy—Enlisted August 4, 1862; age 18 [photo says 16]; residence Champion Hill; mustered August 18, 1862; wounded May 10, 1864, at Po River, Virginia; no man in the company did more or better service than this boy; discharged with the company; present address Grampion, Pennsylvania.

Adam was born 7 Jan 1845 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania to Andrew Jackson Murphy and Catherine Kelly. He was one of ten children (his father’s 3rd child and his mother’s 1st). He enlisted on 4 Aug 1862 as Private, enlisted in Company G, Pennsylvania 148th Infantry Regiment on 18 Aug 1862, and mustered out on 01 Jun 1865 in Alexandria, VA. Adam married Martha Patterson Smith on 13 Oct 1881 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. On 4 Jan 1883, their daughter Clara Iona Murphy was born in Pine Grove Mills, Centre, Pennsylvania. Clara was actually their only child. Clara had an illegitimate son, Andrew Robison “Reub” Murphy, on 14 Mar 1906 in Grampian, Pennsylvania with John F Rafferty. I’m sure Adam & Martha were concerned for Clara’s future so they kept and raise Reuben as their own. Adam preceded his wife in death at the age of 82 on 1 Jul 1927 in Curwensville, Pennsylvania and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Curwensville, Pennsylvania.