1. Pendleton Murrah was the tenth governor of Texas from 1863 to 1865.
11 Facts About Pendleton Murrah
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Pendleton Murrah's birthplace is sometimes listed as South Carolina, but more recent sources indicate he was born in Bibb County and was the illegitimate son of Peggy Murrah, a daughter of Charles and Avarilla Jones Murrah.
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Pendleton Murrah was raised and educated in a Baptist orphanage, and graduated from Brown University in 1848.
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Pendleton Murrah then studied law and was admitted to the bar.
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Pendleton Murrah moved to Texas and opened a law practice in Marshall.
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Pendleton Murrah soon resigned his commission, but he won the gubernatorial election in 1863, and served until the fall of the Confederacy.
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When he learned that Union Army forces were en route to Texas, Pendleton Murrah fled to Mexico with other Confederate leaders.
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Pendleton Murrah's grave is located in the Panteon Municipal of Monterrey, Mexico.
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Charles Murrah, the grandfather of Pendleton Murrah, was born in 1775 in Warren County, North Carolina.
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Pendleton Murrah traced his ancestry through his parents Charles and his Margaret Murrah, and through them to his grandparents Lodowick and Mira Ann Jeter Murrah of Caroline County, Virginia.
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In 1850 Pendleton Murrah married Sue Ellen Taylor, daughter of a prominent Texas plantation owner.