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Subject: Fw: Crawford in Warren Co., IL
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 09:14:55 -0700
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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 07:17:58 -0600
From: Sandi Gorin <>
Subject: BIOS #4043 THRU 4045 - PARK, NANCE, BROWN
To:
4044 CALLOWAY CO - NANCE, JOHN WEBB - Nance Lowe Simmons Sorter
Thurman Bostwick Alwell Lincoln Smith Mings Wright Cinthela Byram
Stone Marks
Shirley Meadows Brooks Lucas Crawford Ragon Emory
#4044 EARLY DAYS IN GREENBUSH (WARREN CO IL) WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
OF
THE OLD SETTLERS BY WILLIAM L. SNAPP, Copyright, 1905. Calloway Co. John
W.
Nance was born in Rockingham county, North Carolina. May 15, 1814. He was
a
son of William H. and Nancy (Lowe) Nance. His father and grandfather,
John
Nance, were natives of North Carolina. His boyhood days were passed in
middle and west Tennessee. He was married May 24, 1836, to Nancy Simmons
in
Calaway county, Kentucky, near Paris, Tennessee. She was a daughter of
Charles Simmons, who came to Greenbush in 1845. In January, 1845, John W.
Nance moved from Tennessee to Stoddard county, Missouri. In April, 1845,
he
moved from Missouri to Illinois, and settled in the town of Greenbush,
April 27, 1845. On April 27, 1857, he moved to his farm five miles
northeast of the village of Greenbush, where his wife Nancy died November
13, 1872. To them were born the following-named children: Rufus Dodds,
born
February 20, 1837; married Alice M. Sorter, December 19, 1861. She died
February 13, 1866. His second marriage was to Josie Thurman. Francis
Marion, born February 20, 1838. He was enrolled in Co. H, 83rd regiment,
Illinois Vol. Infantry, August 9, 1862, at Greenbush, Illinois, and was
mustered in the service at Monmouth, Illinois, August 11, 1862. In the
formation of the company he was elected second sergeant. On the 14th day
of
March, 1863, he was promoted to the office of second lieutenant. This
regiment went into camp at Fort Heiman, Tenn., September 5, 1862, within
fifteen miles of where Francis M. was born. During the greater part of
the
time he was in service he was in command of the mounted infantry, whose
duty was to hunt guerrillas, repair telegraph lines, and protect foraging
parties. On one of these trips Egbert Bostwick was killed; he was a
comrade
who had the love and respect of all who knew him. This company had many
exciting skirmishes with the guerrillas. February 3, 1863, at Fort
Donelson, Tennessee, nine companies of the 83rd regiment with company C.,
second Illinois light artillery, successfully resisted the attack of
Forest
and Wheeler with 8000 men. The 83rd regiment moved to Clarksville,
Tennessee, in October, 1864; from there to Nashville, Tennessee, in June,
1865, where they were mustered out June 26, 1865. This mounted infantry,
while out with scouting parties, became familiar with most of the people
living between the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers from Paducah to
Nashville. They will be remembered by some of those people, no doubt, to
this day. While at Clarksville, Tennessee. F. M. Nance became acquainted
with Miss Georgia Alwell. After he was mustered out of the service, he
returned to Clarksville, where they were married October 26, 1865. Susan
Alabama, born April 3, 1839; married Levi Lincoln, December 3, 1857. He
died March 30, 1901. Mary Jane, born November 27, 1840; married Josiah
Smith, March 16, 1865. Sarah Elizabeth, born July 16, 1842; married James
F. Mings. He died November 28, 1898. Charles William, born August 11,
1844;
married Eliza A. Wright, January 15, 1873. He died February 18, 1881.
Nancy
Cinthela, born January 16, 1847; married Robert Byram, January 18, 1870.
Martha Washington, born December 4, 1848; married Dr. Emory Stone,
February
24, 1876. Her second marriage was to Knox R. Marks, June 1, 1893. John
Alonzo, born February 10, 1853; married Eliza Smith, October 28, 1877.
Robert Henry, born January 20, 1856. First marriage to Melinda J.
Shirley,
August 16, 1875; she died September 10, 1879. Second marriage to Ann
Shirley; third marriage to Tessie
Meadows, June 8, 1904. Harriet Missouri, born April 1, 1851; died August
11, 1852. John W. Nance was married three times. His second wife was Mrs.
Harriet E. Brooks. This marriage occurred January 11, 1874. She died
March
22, 1878. His third marriage was with Mary (Lucas) Crawford, April 20,
1879, at Abingdon, Illinois, where they now reside. Mr. Nance was by
occupation a carpenter in his younger days, afterwards a farmer. In 1850,
he went with Dr. Bailey Ragon to Monmouth, Illinois, and joined the
Masonic
fraternity, Lodge No. 37, A. F. & A. M. He now belongs to Abingdon Lodge.
In politics he was a Whig up to 1856, afterwards a Democrat. In religion
he
is a member of the Missionary Baptist church. He has always borne the
name
of an honest, upright citizen, to which he is justly entitled.
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