Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 582-583 [McCracken]

     THOMAS MILTON NANCE.  Among the most successful life insurance
men of Kentucky there are few who have surpassed the achievements of
T. M. Nance, of Paducah.  Mr. Nance was born in Graves county,
Kentucky, in the year 1858.  His parents were Clement and Malinda
(Ledbetter) Nance, of whom mention is made above in the biography of
Mr. Monroe Nance.
     Mr. T. M. Nance was reared and educated in Hickman county,
Kentucky, and was a student in Clinton College, Clinton, Kentucky. 
He left school in 1882 to enter a lumber and timber business at
Columbus, Kentucky.  After a successful career in that city, in
1892, he came to Paducah and engaged in the insurance business,
representing the Prudential Insurance Company as local manager for
five years.  In 1899 he accepted a position with the Mutual Benefit
Insurance Company, of Newark, New Jersey, and in 1901 won the first
prize and received a medal for the best class and largest insurance
business in the state of Kentucky.  He is now manager of this
company for western Kentucky, and is well known throughout his
district.  He is a Democrat in politics, but has been too much
occupied with private affairs to take an active part in local
events.  His religious home is in the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, and he has always been a liberal contributor to that body. 
Fraternally he is a member of the Odd Fellows of Paducah, and is
popular among his fellow members.
     In 1886 Mr. Nance was married to Miss Emma Austin, of Mayfield,
Kentucky, who died in 1889, leaving one child, Etta.  In 1892 Mr.
Nance married Miss Lulu Eaker, a native of Mayfield, Kentucky, and a
granddaughter of Squire John Eaker, formerly the oldest pioneer of
Graves county, and one of its best business men.  One child has been
born to Mr. and Mrs. Nance, Lucien Clyde.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Nance
are highly respected by their large circle of friends, and the
success which has attended the efforts of Mr. Nance is well merited.

Nance Ledbetter Austin Eaker
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Graves-KY Hickman-KY

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