Obituary reads…Mrs. Richard Murphy, Sarah Ann Bielby was born at Oriskany, Oneida County, New York, June 9, 1832, died December 5, 1907, aged 75 years 5 months and 26 days. She was married in 1850 to Caleb Chatterson who died in 1863. To this union were born four children: William H. of Alden; Charles R. of Enid, Oklahoma, Thomas of Woodland, Washington, and Mary who died in 1879. She moved to Michigan in 1858 and then to Illinois in 1860.
She was married to Richard Murphy in 1869 at Chicago, Illinois. To this union were born five children, Sarah J. Garner, Florence Conley, George, Richard, Jr., and Andrew. They moved to Kansas in 1879 and settled near Peace (now Sterling) and moved in 1882 to the farm they now occupy. She is survived by her husband, eight children, thirteen grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren and one brother Robert Bielby of Dowagiac, Michigan. The interment was at Sterling where the Relief Corps and Rebekahs assisted.
