![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1913 they moved back to Washington, settling at Blanchard in the northwestern corner of the state. They lived there for a year or so, then returned to Guilford County. After a few years, when their son, Egbert, was "a little fellow," the Murrows moved to the state of Washington, where some relatives had taken up residence many years before. Following this service he returned to Guilford County and married. Even so, the elder Murrow enlisted in the army during the Spanish-American War and was sent to Vancouver Barracks across the Columbia River in the Washington Territory near Portland, Oreg. 1965Įdward Roscoe Murrow, news broadcaster and government official, originally named Egbert, was born near Centre Quaker Meetinghouse in Guilford County on Polecat Creek, the youngest of three sons of Egbert Roscoe and Ethel Lamb Murrow, strict Quakers.
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