Nancy Smith was born 17 Oct 1785 in North Carolina. Married to William Nance, they were the parents of ten known children:
Dorotha/Dorothea, (m1. Levin Howard, 2. __ Marsh, 3. Rev. James Ross)
Mary Nance
Mrs. Marie Butler
Mrs. Nancy Lane
Mrs. Minerva Fessenden
Mrs. Amanda Jane Wilkinson
sons Clement, John Smith, William H. and Hiram Nance
Nancy and her husband settled in what was at first Harrison County and, after 1818, Floyd County, Indiana. In 1836 they sold their farm there and moved to Adams County, Illinois where they first settled at Quincy, and later at Columbus.
After her husband’s death, Jane moved in with her eldest child, daughter Dorotha, who was by then married to Rev. James R. Ross. She was enumerated on the 1860 census at their household in Hancock County’s St. Mary’s Township.
(Vital information from census and other records, also from the book ‘The Nance Memorial,’ which is available online at no charge.)
(submitted by Nancy Keller)
Dorotha/Dorothea, (m1. Levin Howard, 2. __ Marsh, 3. Rev. James Ross)
Mary Nance
Mrs. Marie Butler
Mrs. Nancy Lane
Mrs. Minerva Fessenden
Mrs. Amanda Jane Wilkinson
sons Clement, John Smith, William H. and Hiram Nance
Nancy and her husband settled in what was at first Harrison County and, after 1818, Floyd County, Indiana. In 1836 they sold their farm there and moved to Adams County, Illinois where they first settled at Quincy, and later at Columbus.
After her husband’s death, Jane moved in with her eldest child, daughter Dorotha, who was by then married to Rev. James R. Ross. She was enumerated on the 1860 census at their household in Hancock County’s St. Mary’s Township.
(Vital information from census and other records, also from the book ‘The Nance Memorial,’ which is available online at no charge.)
(submitted by Nancy Keller)
Nancy Smith was born 17 Oct 1785 in North Carolina. Married to William Nance, they were the parents of ten known children:
Dorotha/Dorothea, (m1. Levin Howard, 2. __ Marsh, 3. Rev. James Ross)
Mary Nance
Mrs. Marie Butler
Mrs. Nancy Lane
Mrs. Minerva Fessenden
Mrs. Amanda Jane Wilkinson
sons Clement, John Smith, William H. and Hiram Nance
Nancy and her husband settled in what was at first Harrison County and, after 1818, Floyd County, Indiana. In 1836 they sold their farm there and moved to Adams County, Illinois where they first settled at Quincy, and later at Columbus.
After her husband’s death, Jane moved in with her eldest child, daughter Dorotha, who was by then married to Rev. James R. Ross. She was enumerated on the 1860 census at their household in Hancock County’s St. Mary’s Township.
(Vital information from census and other records, also from the book ‘The Nance Memorial,’ which is available online at no charge.)
(submitted by Nancy Keller)
Dorotha/Dorothea, (m1. Levin Howard, 2. __ Marsh, 3. Rev. James Ross)
Mary Nance
Mrs. Marie Butler
Mrs. Nancy Lane
Mrs. Minerva Fessenden
Mrs. Amanda Jane Wilkinson
sons Clement, John Smith, William H. and Hiram Nance
Nancy and her husband settled in what was at first Harrison County and, after 1818, Floyd County, Indiana. In 1836 they sold their farm there and moved to Adams County, Illinois where they first settled at Quincy, and later at Columbus.
After her husband’s death, Jane moved in with her eldest child, daughter Dorotha, who was by then married to Rev. James R. Ross. She was enumerated on the 1860 census at their household in Hancock County’s St. Mary’s Township.
(Vital information from census and other records, also from the book ‘The Nance Memorial,’ which is available online at no charge.)
(submitted by Nancy Keller)
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