Blevins.
Nancy's maiden name was Hickilin, and her middle name was Angeline. She married Andrew Jackson Blevins. Elmer Lee and Frank George Blevins were two of their children. Josephine "Pryor" Blevins was Frank Georges wife. Emory was one their children too. Elmer Lee was married to Florenia Isom. Elmers full birthdate is 11- 19-1885 and his death date was 1959.
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Nancy Hicklin was the daughter of William Hicklin and Tabitha Stroud Hlicklin.
She was the twin sister of Martha Emaline Hicklin (known as Aunt Matt). She was
born November 14, 1865, probably in Emporia, Kansas.

She married Andrew Jackson Blevins in Lawrence County, Missouri, on December 11,
1884. She died of cancer in Kansas City, Missouri, at the home of her daughter
Lucy in October, 1939. She is buried in Camp Ground Cemetery at Chesapeake,
Missouri. At the time of her death, she had been a member of the Chesapeake
Baptist Church for fifty years.

Nancy Blevins is remembered as a short, pleasant little woman who had silver
gray hair which she wore in a bun to the back of her head. Some of the
grandchildren can remember her combing long strands of silver hair that she put
up in this bun to the back of her head.

She wore a small pair of spectacles when she read. She often silently moved her
lips while reading, as if she were silently pronouncing the words that her eyes
were following. She devoured the newspapers and had a keen interest in politics.
She read of all the political happenings and formed opinions of the leading
politicians of the day. She was a strong admirer of the demagogue Huey Long, who
was the raucous governor of Louisiana in the 1930's.

Nancy had a big, black iron kettle sitting in the yard in which she made lye
soap. She wore a large flimsy bonnet and gathered eggs in her apron.

She was the mother of eleven children. When she became seriously ill with
cancer, she went to the home of her daughter Lucy, where she was lovingly cared
for in her last days by her daughters.

Nancy grew up without her real mother, Tabitha Stroud, playing a significant
role in her life. She always said that her stepmother, Mary Lucinda Stogsdill
Hicklin, treated her as though she were her natural child and was like a real
mother to her.