Notes on the Murray family

Notes on the Murray family

Clark County Pioneers In the early 1800s William Murray and his wife Lucy were free African American members of Providence Baptist Church—familiarly known as the Old Stone Church—on Lower Howard’s Creek. This church was planted in Clark County by a white congregation in 1784. In 1870 white members sold the church to an African American congregation, and it continues today as the Providence Missionary Baptist Church. Murray family descendants hav…