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Nancy Foreman

Birth
Ohio County, West Virginia, USA
Death
29 Nov 1849 (aged 50–51)
Ohio County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
West Liberty, Ohio County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Daughter of Reuben Foreman and Ruth VanMeter Foreman

Married William T.Foreman of Berkeley County, West Virginia, son of Joseph Foreman and Priscilla Rawlings Foreman,. William was Nancy's first cousin.

In Nancy's will she had married again and her husband was Joseph Marchal. She said in her will he had spent her money and left surreptitiously. and she did not expect him to return.
She had seven children and the father of all of them was William T. Foreman, and he was deceased before she married again.
Children:
Joseph b. 1818
Reuben b. 1820
Lucy Ann b. 1821
Emily b. 1822
A. Mason b. 1823 (he had military service records and those said his name was Alexander
Hambleton b. 1825
William b. 1832

Death is listed on an 1850 mortality schedule in Virginia.

The two youngest sons, Hambleton and William, left with three brothers to Iowa in the 1850s, and by 1860 they were on the census in California, which would have been the time of the Gold Rush. That was the last record of them. They worked in a business in Ohio County Virginia, and were also storekeepers in California.

In her father Reuben's will, one of the people who received an inheritance was his grandson Reuben Foreman Jr. the son of William T. and Nancy Foreman
Daughter of Reuben Foreman and Ruth VanMeter Foreman

Married William T.Foreman of Berkeley County, West Virginia, son of Joseph Foreman and Priscilla Rawlings Foreman,. William was Nancy's first cousin.

In Nancy's will she had married again and her husband was Joseph Marchal. She said in her will he had spent her money and left surreptitiously. and she did not expect him to return.
She had seven children and the father of all of them was William T. Foreman, and he was deceased before she married again.
Children:
Joseph b. 1818
Reuben b. 1820
Lucy Ann b. 1821
Emily b. 1822
A. Mason b. 1823 (he had military service records and those said his name was Alexander
Hambleton b. 1825
William b. 1832

Death is listed on an 1850 mortality schedule in Virginia.

The two youngest sons, Hambleton and William, left with three brothers to Iowa in the 1850s, and by 1860 they were on the census in California, which would have been the time of the Gold Rush. That was the last record of them. They worked in a business in Ohio County Virginia, and were also storekeepers in California.

In her father Reuben's will, one of the people who received an inheritance was his grandson Reuben Foreman Jr. the son of William T. and Nancy Foreman


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