Thomas Rowland Nanney

Notes:

Died from an operation.

When we were in North Carolina in 1968, in April, Aunt Carrie Lee was living in
a new home, and was an interesting person - very guarded with her history of
her people. What has been given had to be a fight ... and so I was corrected
on many of my notes and dates, but she did give me some new facts which I
carefully wrote down in my notebook. We were in her kitchen sitting on the
long "Beacon type" bench with my husband and teenage son, Bob, across from us.
Aunt Carrie Lee and Cuyva stood ready to aid us. I was a little astonished at
all this kindness, and perhaps, a little uneasy at my manerisms - I didn't want
to eat. I'd rather sit and "soak up" the tranquility of the home, the land and
and the easy hospitality granted to their own, Ralph White, and their alien
kinship (even of a Yankee descendent). The table was set with home grown and
home made foods. I relished it very much, it is much the same as we eat at
home when dad does the cooking. I cannot reproduce the same effect as our
hillbilly daddy can.

God Bless them as He has in the past.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
37, 44.

Thomas married Carrie Lee Ownbey 11 Jun 1917, Buncombe County, North Carolina. Carrie (daughter of Daniel Rufus Ownbey and Olive Antonette (Anty) Moffitt) was born 13 Oct 1892, Broad River Township, Buncombe County, North Carolina; died 8 Sep 1982, Buncombe County, North Carolina; was buried Bald Mountain Baptist Church Cemetery. [Group Sheet]

1. Amiell Legan Nanney was born 30 Mar 1918, Bald Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina; died 31 Mar 1971.
2. Rufus Otto Nanney was born 20 Aug 1919, Bald Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
3. James Alfred Nanney was born 19 Apr 1921, Bald Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
4. Guyva Jane Nanney was born 12 May 1923, Bald Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
5. Harley Hubert Nanney was born 24 Jul 1924, Bald Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
6. Charles Clifford Nanney was born 2 Jul 1928, Bald Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
7. Tressie Katharine Nanney was born 2 Dec 1929, Bald Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
8. Reeda Opal Nanney was born 20 Aug 1931, Bald Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
9. Stuart Avalt Nanney was born 11 Sep 1935, Bald Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
44.

Benjamin — Amanda Jane Dalton. Amanda (daughter of Alfred Anderson Dalton and Mary Kate Murphy) was born 1 Feb 1865, Rutherford County, North Carolina; died 23 Jan 1926, Buncombe County, North Carolina; was buried Bald Mountain Baptist Church Cemetery. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
44.

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p 27, 53.

Alfred married Mary Kate Murphy 22 May 1853, McDowell County, North Carolina. Mary (daughter of Ledbetter and Zillah Ownbey) was born 6 Mar 1836, Buncombe County, North Carolina; died 10 Oct 1922, Rutherford County, North Carolina; was buried Bald Mountain Baptist Church Cemetery. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Kate raised Carrie Lee after her mother, Olive Ownbey died.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p 27.

Notes:

Of McDowell County, North Carolina and earlier of Rutherford County, North
Carolina.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p 53.

David — Ruth Davis. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Of Rutherford County, North Carolina.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p 53.

— Zillah Ownbey. Zillah (daughter of Ambrose "Little Ambrose" Ownbey and Margarette "Peggy" Hodge) was born 11 Jul 1818; died 9 Jun 1911; was buried Ledbetter Cemetery, Buncombe County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

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.