History
While searching for the ideal site to relocate his family, Rev. Wm. Murphy and their three sons came to the vicinity of Farmington, Missouri, in 1798 and received their Spanish land grants. In his travels back to Tennessee to get his wife, Murphy passed, leaving it up to his wife, Sarah Barton Murphy, and their sons to establish the settlement. Undaunted, Mrs. Murphy returned to Missouri, in 1803, and established the first white settlement, named Murphy’s Settlement. A post office in Murphy’s Settlement opened in 1817, followed by the annexation of the land to the United States through the Louisiana Purchase – creating the State of Missouri.
It is an honor to have our chapter bear the name of Sarah Barton Murphy, a noble pioneer woman. Sarah is the daughter of Joshua Barton of Virginia, a Revolutionary soldier.
With fourteen present at the home of Mrs. O. A. Nichols, the Sarah Barton Murphy Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was organized March 12, 1914.