Front Row, L-R:
Mary Kate Dalton Murphy-born 1836 (daughter of Zillah and Squire Tom Ledbetter)
Zillah "Granny Duck" Owenby Murphy-born 1818 (mother of Mary Kate)
Cecil Nanney, born 1906
Amanda Jane Dalton Nanney born 1865 (mother of Garlen, wife of Ben Logan Nanney)
Back Row, L-R:
Garlen "Monk" Nanney born 1883 (father of Cecil)
Carrie Lee Owenby Nanney born 1881 (wife of Thomas R Nanney, Mary Kate raised her)


Zillah was the daughter of Ambrose Owenby who was born 12-12-1798 and died 1882 in Rutherford County. His wife was Margarette "Peggy" Hodge. W.A.B. Murphy and his father in law, Ambrose Owenby, purchased over 3200 acres of land together. One of the last lines of Ambrose's will reads: "I will that the property to be equally distributed among my children, only my daughter Zillah Murphy for the rongs and insults done to me in my lifetime by her husband W.A.B. Murphy. I will her one dollar for her part of my estate. July 1847. Signed Ambrose Owenby.

Zillah was pregnant with Squire Tom Ledbetter's child (Squire Tom Ledbetter was a brother to W.A.B.'s 1st wife Temperance) and he did not want to marry her, so he paid W.A.B. Murphy $10 to marry her. Zillah and Ledbetter's daughter's name was Mary Catherine "Mary Kate" Murphy, born 3-6-1836. Died 10-10-1922 Buried Bald Mountain Cemetery. W.A.B. drove the stage at that time and Zillah lived in his house. After about 4 years he came home, opened a store and lived with her. They had 6 more children.

Mary Kate Murphy married Alfred Anderson Dalton. This is how we are related to the Dalton Gang of Kansas. They had 11 children.

WAB AND ZILLAH MURPHY
MARRIED 1835
HAD 6 CHILDREN
1. William Al Bertus Murphy, Jr. "Uncle Bill" born 1840. Married Sally McGraw and lived in Kentucky. He never returned after the Civil War. No one is really sure what happened to him. Some say he went to Missouri. What we do know is that his first wife was on the 1910 census in Boyle County KY, living with her daughter Lillie and Victor Owen, Lillie's husband, a telegraph operator. In 1920 she was still living there alone. We have a picture of WAB, Jr. in his Confederate Uniform.
2. Nancy Elizabeth 5-19-1841 to 12-18-1932 married James Ivey Moffitt. Mark Elliott descends from this union.
3. Louisa born 1843 married Jim Bly Gilliam died 1878
4. Eliza Jane, married Tom Ben Ledbetter b? abt 1820, died 1913?
5. Margaret "Maggie" married James Hill on 12-18-1881 Born 1835?
6. Zillah M, a minor at the time of WAB's death, we don't know what happened to her