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SUNDAY, AUGUST 3,2003
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Of Hancock County
he people that lived in what is now the Stennis Space Center Federal City and Buffer Zone, while being a unique and independent bunch of individuals, were something more. They were a family, and like a family, they tended to work together for the good of the whole group. Most remember a harmonious daily life largely untouched by the troubles of the more sophisticated outside world.
Many of the families living in the area held land that had been in their families for generations and the Murphys wrere no exception. Their family land, in the area that was once Napoleon, had	been
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Nancy was part of a large Catholic family of the 10 children of Mary Starks of Ocean Springs and Charles B. Murphy of Napoleon. Charles and Mary met when Mary came to teach school in Westonia. All 10 children except the oldest sister, Lucille Witter, were born in Napoleon.
Nancy and Lucille, similar in age, remain close today. Nancy lives in her home in Bay St. Louis and Lucille in Pass Christian at Miramar Lodge. They talk by phone almost daily.
“My mother came to teach in Westonia,” said Lucille. “And for a while she lived in boxcar. She was a lovely sweet person. With
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