This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XV.2ADI/425.1 Message Board Post: There are Murphys from Ouachita, Hempstead and Nevada Counties AR in my family lineage as well. I grew up in Nevada County, so I'm very familiar with the region. Nevada County was formed in 1871 from portions of Ouachita, Hempstead and Columbia counties. The large Leake Plantation was located in the area that is now far southeastern Nevada County. Leake Store that you mention is shown on our township maps as located within Leake Township, which would have been a part of Ouachita County prior to 1871. It's not far at all from Smackover AR, which is still in Ouachita County. (Note: I have an ancestor that was overseer at the Leake Plantation in the mid-1800s, but he was a Barham rather than a Murphy). There may have been an Albany near Smackover and Leake Store, but it's also possible that the Albany your looking for is Albany Township, located in Nevada County. This Albany Township is just below Missouri Township & starts about four miles south of the town of Prescott (Nevada's countyseat). Albany would have been part of Hempstead County prior to 1871. My John W. Murphy came to southwestern AR in the 1840s from SC, AL & LA (and he's related to the Rev William Murphy clan of VA, NC, TN, MO). John Murphy's daughter Permelia Cecile Murphy married my ggg-grandfather James Cox in 1850 in Redland / Caruse Township in Hempstead County (later Nevada County). They lived for a time also just over the county line into Ouachita County near Camden at Red Hill where there were other Coxes. My Cox family still lives at Redland in Nevada County. Others from John Murphy's family lived at Boughton Township, just north of Prescott in Nevada County. It's my understanding that John had other Murphy relatives (brothers?) who lived also at this time near El Dorado and Smackover, which would possibly be the ones you're researching. I have a lot of the Murphy info stored in my files that I might be able to help you with later. Note that Ouachita (pronounced Wash-a-taw) is a very common word in southwest Arkansas and is the name of rivers, colleges, businesses, etc., as well as a county. It's obviously an old Indian word and is spelled with an O rather than a Q. I hope this much helps clarify some of your questions.