7. | Zillah Ownbey was born 11 Jul 1818 (daughter of Ambrose "Little Ambrose" Ownbey and Margarette "Peggy" Hodge); died 9 Jun 1911; was buried Ledbetter Cemetery, Buncombe County, North Carolina. Notes:
Before William Murphy married Zillah, she was with child. He married her anyway and before the child was born, he came up missing. He spent a few years in Charlotte, North Carolina, driving a stage, where he had a son, James, by Nancy Fagin (illegitimate). He returned to his wife, they forgave one another and each accepted the children and raised them as their own blood.
The private cemetery in which William A. B. Murphy was buried is on Highway #9 just north and west from Bat Cave. It has a narrow, faint path that winds its way up the side with the plot - a lush thick forest and undergrowth carpet which slants away from the approach. Here is the tall grave marker of Zillah (Ownbey) Murphy. It is engraved as Zillah Ownby, wife of Will A. B. Murphy.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p 16, 27.
Children:
- William Murphy was born Abt 1841, North Carolina; died Mar 1896, Huntsville, Tennessee.
- Nancy Murphy was born 19 May 1847, Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina; died 18 Dec 1932; was buried Stone Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
- Eliza Jane Murphy was born 10 Sep 1863, Buncombe County, North Carolina; died 23 Apr 1942, McCowell County, North Carolina; was buried Ledbetter Cemetery, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
- Mary Lou "Louisa" Murphy was born Abt 1844, Black Mountain, McDowell, North Carolina; died Apr 1878.
- 3. Margaret Murphy was born 22 Jul 1862, Buncombe County, North Carolina; died 26 May 1946, Cleveland County, North Carolina; was buried Sunset Cemetery, Cleveland County, North Carolina.
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