Frances Raney Godfrey Murrah, age 92, is one of the oldest living descendants of Texas pioneer surveyor Warren A. Ferris. She is the great granddaughter of Ferris’s son, Robert “Bob” Ferris.

Frances’s mother Sadie Mae Uselton Raney was the daughter of Pearl Ferris and Robert Uselton. After her mother’s early death, Sadie, her sister Ethel, and the other children were raised by her mother’s sister, Mattie Ferris, who became Uselton’s second wife. “Aunt Mattie” was much beloved by her pack of step-children.