Emily Ailene Blann

1872-1933 · Arkansas

Born 1872, Calhoun County, Arkansas

Died 1933

Children include Jimmie

Emily Ailene Blann, called Alene and sometimes Lena, was born in Calhoun County, Arkansas, on 15 February 1872. Memorials compiled by relatives give her parents as Richard Thomas Blann (1846 to 1912) and Amanda Stafford (1848 to 1923), and her brother and sisters as James Keller, Fleta Arzelia, Mrs. Parker, and Bertha Bennie, Mrs. Bird.

In 1892, in Ouachita County, she married Will Murph, a widower with two young sons. She had at least nine children of her own over the next twenty-three years: Blann Stark, whose first name was her own maiden name, then eight daughters, Versa Clark, Eva Mae, Jimmie Neal, Lois Pearl, Louise, Mary Mattaline, Gail and Minnette Morene.

The family moved to El Dorado in about 1903. She lost Eva Mae at 13 in 1909 and her husband in April 1926. Alene Murph died at El Dorado on 9 September 1933, aged 61, and was buried beside Will in the Bethel Cemetery. When her daughter Jimmie died forty years later, the obituary still began with her parents: "the daughter of Will and Alene Blann Murph". Among the pallbearers was a Herbert Lee Blann.

Children

Jimmie Neal Murph 1898-1973

Sources

Find a Grave, memorial 102289710, photograph added by David Campbell, 10 January 2016

Obituary of Mrs. Jimmie Marrable, October 1973, clipping on Find a Grave memorial 44977076; Find a Grave memorial 102289696 and its stone photograph

Bethel Cemetery, Junction City Highway, El Dorado, Union County, Arkansas; photograph on Find a Grave memorial 44436320

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Cite: Heirology, "Emily Ailene Blann (1872-1933)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/emily-ailene-blann-1872-1933-3071f8.