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VANCE FAMILY PLOT

IN GLADDEN COMMUNITY, DENT CO.

This was copied from "Ozark Heritage Dent County Missouri Area Cemeteries & Families" Vol III 1994 by Ken Fiebelman of Salem, MO.

Reprinted with the permission of Ken Fiebelman on behalf of the Dent County Historical Society


There are 5 or 6 members of the Vance family buried on the old Vance farm.

HUSBAND & WIFE:  Married  Nov. 2, 1837 Madison County
VANCE, JOHN     1820 - abt. 1870.   Born in Wayne County, Missouri. 
VANCE, ELIZABETH 'BETTY' CARNAHAN    
1810 - After 1880.     Daughter of Hugh Carnahan & Elizabeth Margaret Tennyson. Born Murfreesboro, Rutherford, Tennessee. Died aft. 1880 census at Gladden Dent County. She is listed on the 1880 census of Franklin Twp, Dent County, age 70, living with her son William. Children: Nancy (1840-1901, m. William Short), James W. (1840-1922, buried at Short Cemetery), Solomon (1842-1900, m. Margaret___), Leanor (or Eleanor) (1843-?), John (1846 or 1847 - ?,  m. Elizabeth Wortman on Oct. 8, 1868, Dent Co.), Hugh (1852-1902) and William Henry (1854-1932). (Nancy, Hugh & Wm. H. buried at Short Cemetery).

VANCE, SOLOMON 'SOL'    1842 - abt. 1900.    Son of John Vance & Elizabeth Carnahan. Married Margaret ____. Children: Marion, Charley and Sarah F. Edward.


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