When Margaret Ann Pippen was born on 22 June 1851, in Greene, Alabama, United States, her father, Cyrus C Pippen, was 41 and her mother, Martha A. Barham, was 30. She married Ferdenand Eugene Murphy on 27 December 1869, in Ashley, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 12 April 1929, in Mill Creek Township, Ashley, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Carlock Cemetery, Hamburg, Ashley, Arkansas, United States.