Murfree family.

Family members include Hardy Murfree, hero of the Revolutionary War attack on Stony Point, N.Y., and incorporator in 1787 of Murfreesboro, N.C., who moved to Tennessee in 1807 and for whom Murfreesboro, Tenn., is named; his son Wiliam Hardy Murfree, attorney and North Carolina legislator, who settled in Tennessee around 1823; William Hardy Murfree's brother-in-law David Dickinson of Tennessee; Thomas Henry Maney, who was a businessman in Nashville, Tenn.; Eliza Maney Cook and her husband Ed C. Cook, Confederate acting brigadier general killed in action in 1864; Mary Noailles Murfree, novelist who wrote under the name of Charles Egbert Craddock; and other members of the Brickell, Dickinson, Maney, Maslin, and Murfree families.

From the description of Murfree family papers, 1779-1935; 1960 (bulk 1779-1935) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 31908777