The Chattanooga News
Chattanooga, OK
2 Dec 1909, Thursday, page 8

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DEATH OF MISS MAY MURPHY

   Last Monday morning the whole town was shocked when the report was circulated that one of the most popular young ladies in town was dead. At first it was scarcely credited, but it proved all too true. Miss Murphy had been sick for three or four days, but no one thought it serious. Neither her relatives nor the doctors in attendance consideredthe case at all dangerous until after midnight Sunday night. Then cerebro spinal menengetis deceloped and at 6 o'clock Monday morning she breathed her last on earth.
   May Murphy's friends were limited only by her acquaintances. To know her was to love her. In a peculiar degree she seemed to attract the esteem of all, mere acquaintances vieing with her friends in high regard of her ladylike demeanor, that carried conviction of the womanly graces she possessed.
   That death loves a shining mark has again been exemplified. Why it is best that one just stepping across the threshold of life, and a life she was so eminently qualified to adorn, should be so suddenly taken away is one of the inscrutable mysteries of that Divine Power to whose mandates mortals can only bow in meek submission.
May Murphy was born April 30, 1883, at Neillsville, Wis. Her mother died when May was only 3 years old. Her uncle and aunt took the little girl and reared her as their own. She lived with them until two years ago, when she came to Chattanooga to reside with her father, William Murphy.
   Her uncle died just a week before Miss May, but her aunt survives.
   Her immediate relatives here besides her father and step-mother are her brother Henry and Mrs. Frank Schwarte of Lawton. Other relatives are cousins, Miss Sarah McLain, who is well known here; a brother and several other relatives in Wisconsin.
   The time of the funeral is not yet known, because the family is awaiting the arrival of relatives who have been notified.