Individual Details
Ezekiel Charles Murphy
(Apr 1859 - )
Texas marriage records are online at FamilySearch.org and I found this:
E. C. Murphy married L. O. Wylie, 20 Dec 1883, Anderson Co TX
The 1900 Census, Henderson Co:
E. Charlie Murphy, b. Apr 1859, age 41, married 9 years (so definitely a 2nd marriage about 1891)
C. Mollie, wife, b. Dec 1868, 31, has had 5 children - 5 are living
Willie, son, b. Aug. 1891, age 8
Emily, dau, b. Oct 1895, 4
G. Robert, son, b. Feb 1897, 3
Ossie, son, b. Sep 1899, age 9 months
What's odd - there aren't 5 children... Perhaps a child by the first wife was counted but not listed because all of the children listed have been born since Charle married Mollie. You didn't say when Etta Mae was born - could she have been married before 1900? The only daughter is Emily.
It is always possible that if Charlie had children by his first wife, they were living with some of her family and not with him and their stepmother.
I did find another marriage in Henderson Co: E. C. Murphy to Mollie Hodge, 23 Jun 1891 - so there's Charlie 2nd marriage. But I didn't find a marriage for Etta Mae.
If I found Charlie in 1910, he had married again to a Maggie and living in Dallas Co with sons Robert & Ozy and a stepson.
Events
Birth | Apr 1859 | Texas |
Families
Father | Robert King MURPHY (1834 - 1911) |
Mother | Dicey Emily Rogers (1836 - 1871) |
Sibling | Elizabeth MURPHY (1853 - ) |
Sibling | Savilla MURPHY (1855 - ) |
Sibling | Oza Joshua MURPHY (1857 - ) |
Sibling | James MURPHY (1863 - ) |
Sibling | Sarah Martha "Mattie" MURPHY (1865 - 1896) |
Sibling | Lawrence Elvin MURPHY (1869 - 1931) |