Frederick Short "F.S." Ewing, Merphia's father, gave the information for this delayed birth certificate. F.S. has been a bit hard to find personal information on. He seemed to be a bit of a drifter.
This information was given in 1953. Frederick Short Ewing would have been about 83 years old. When F.S. died in 1962, he was living in an infirmary, so I'm not sure how accurate his information would be.
Unfortunately, I believe that this delayed birth certificate led to confusion about my grandmother's name. I had always wondered why sometimes she was referred to as Murphy, or Annie Muphy, or Merphia Emma, or Merphia, so forth and so on.
I have decided to go with the name of Merphia. She was an artist, and she always signed her paintings as "Merphia."
