Thomas Murrish was born in Cornall, England and his family came to this country in 1970 when he was 19 and they settled in Pennsylvania where his father worked in a coal mine. Thomas married Eliza his wife and after having several children they moved to California. He was a Methodist minister and held parishes in the gold country before relocating to Boulder Creek before the 1906 earthquake. He later was based in Oakland, San Francisco, Bakersfield and Redding as a minister and he stayed after until his death at 86. His son Harry still lives in Boulder Creekl