Zillah Ownbey

1818 - 1911  (92 years)

• Name	Zillah Ownbey
  Born	11 Jul 1818
  Gender	Female
  Died	9 Jun 1911
  Buried	Ledbetter Cemetery, Buncombe County, North Carolina   [1]
  Person ID	I9624	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2012

  
  

  Father	Ambrose "Little Ambrose" Ownbey,   b. 28 Dec 1798, Rutherford County, North Carolina ,   d. 31 Mar 1864, Henderson County, North Carolina  (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Margarette "Peggy" Hodge,   b. 10 Jul 1802, North Carolina ,   d. 7 Feb 1884, Henderson County, North Carolina  (Age 81 years)
  Married	Abt 4 Mar 1816
  Family ID	F3481	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	Ledbetter
  Children	+ 1. Mary Kate Murphy,   b. 6 Mar 1836, Buncombe County, North Carolina ,   d. 10 Oct 1922, Rutherford County, North Carolina  (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F3552	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	William Albert B. Murphy,   b. 1 Jul 1812,   d. 26 Jul 1869  (Age 57 years)
  Married	Abt 1840
  Children	+ 1. William Murphy,   b. Abt 1841, North Carolina ,   d. Mar 1896, Huntsville, Tennessee  (Age ~ 55 years) + 2. Nancy Murphy,   b. 19 May 1847, Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina ,   d. 18 Dec 1932  (Age 85 years) + 3. Eliza Jane Murphy,   b. 10 Sep 1863, Buncombe County, North Carolina ,   d. 23 Apr 1942, McCowell County, North Carolina  (Age 78 years) + 4. Mary Lou "Louisa" Murphy,   b. Abt 1844, Black Mountain, McDowell, North Carolina ,   d. Apr 1878  (Age ~ 34 years) + 5. Margaret Murphy,   b. 22 Jul 1862, Buncombe County, North Carolina ,   d. 26 May 1946, Cleveland County, North Carolina  (Age 83 years)
  Family ID	F3507	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos

  Carroll Biddix submission Zillah Owenby Wife of W. A. B. Murphy July 1818 June 1911

  
  

• 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. ---------- Reference: "Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p 16, 27.

  
  

• Sources

  [S147] Find a Grave, (Memorial: 12636872).