These were my maternal great grandparents.
Thomas was born 1845 in Newton County Miss. Bettie (Mary Elizabeth) Murphey Scanlon was born Macon Miss about 1851. Bettie came from the Murphey's of N. Carolina, including Archie Murphey back to Archibald Debow, a Dutch Jew who settled in New Amsterdam sometime between 1610 and 1650.