Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 154-156.  Graves Co.

EDWIN THOMAS NANCE

     Eighty years is the span of the life of this venerable citizen of
Graves county, Kentucky, and his career is not only worthy of consideration
on this account, but he deserves mention because of the leading part he has
taken in business affairs of the western part of Kentucky, where he has
been known as one of the leading tobacco growers and farmers.  The family
is of German descent, but has resided in this country for many years.
Grandfather William Nance was born in Bedford county, Virginia, and lived
to be a very old man.  His son, John Nance, was also born in Bedford
county, in 1780, and was educated in the schools of that state.  He was a
farmer, and at his death, which occured in 1845, he was recognized as one
of the foremost men in that pursuit in the state of Virginia.  In 1805 he
was married to Martha Estes, who was born in Bedford county, Virginia, in
1787, and her father, William Estes, was a native of the same place and
lived to the great age of ninety-eight years.  Mrs. Nance died in 1848,
having become the mother of a large family.  The son, Thaddeus, was a
farmer of Bedford county, and died in 1863:  S.A. Nance was a farmer of
Trigg county, Kentucky, and died in 1895 at the age of eighty years; Albert
Nance was a farmer in Bedford county and died in 1863 at the age of
forty-five; Benjamin Nance, who was one of the largest wheat growers in
Howard county, Missouri, died in 1902, aged seventy-two; Thorp Nance is
farmer in Texas; John F. is a farmer in Bedford county, Virginia; Celia Ann
married William Burnett, a farmer in Missouri, and both are now deceased;
Mary was the wife of Isaiah Wade, a farmer in Bedford county, Virginia, and
both are deceased; Lizzie is the wife of Pleasant Wade, of Cincinnati,
Ohio; Sarah died in youth; Emeline is the wife of Joel Wright, a Missouri
farmer.
     Edwin Thomas Nance completes the list of the above-named children.  He
was born in Bedford county, Virginia, January 17, 1823, and after leaving
school engaged in farming.  He was actively engaged in this occupation in
his native state until 1870, when he came to Graves county, Kentucky, where
he is now cultivating a fine farm of one hundred and eighty-four acres, and
has been especially successful in raising tobacco.
     In 1844 Mr. Nance was married to Miss Sallie Snow, and the following
children were born to them:  Mary, the wife of Thomas Tinsley, a farmer of
Calloway county, Kentucky; Bettie, the wife of William Nance, a painter of
Clarksville, Tennessee; George P. is a farmer of Trigg county, Kentucky;
John A. is a farmer in Graves county; Kittie is the wife of Henry Jenkins,
of Graves county; William Nance is a farmer of Graves county; Belle is the
wife of Wickliffe Dawson, a farmer of Trigg county, and Albert T. is a
farmer of Trigg county.  The mother of these children died in 1891, and in
1895 Mr. Nance married Mrs. Martha Perry, the widow of Oliver Perry.  He is
a Democrat and a member of the Missionary Baptist church.
                               
Nance Estes Burnett Wade Wright Snow Tinsley Jenkins Dawson Perry
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Germany Bedford-VA Trigg-KY Howard-MO TX Hamilton-OH Calloway-KY
Montgomery-TN

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