Split-Trunk Tree

George and Minerva Murrell probably intended to live out their days at "Hunter's Home," their name for the Murrell Home, but this was not to be. Minerva died in 1855. Two years later, George wed Amanda Ross, Minerva's sister. Their firstborn child died, but their second, George Ross Murrell, lived. He was just ten months old when the Civil War came to Oklahoma. The slave-owning Murrells fled, leaving care of their home to relatives. Soldiers from both sides of the conflict raided the Murrell Home during the war years, but the plantation survived.