Emma Leoline Sinclair Nance

Brief Life History of Emma Leoline Sinclair

When Emma Leoline Sinclair Nance was born on 24 August 1863, in Calhoun, Alabama, United States, her father, James Allen Nance, was 33 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth James, was 26. She married George A Youngblood on 23 September 1881, in Calhoun, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Bloomington, Greer, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Beckham, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. She died on 7 February 1940, in Mangum, Greer, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in White Flat Cemetery, Mangum Township, Greer, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Martin Jackson
1868–1929
Emma Leoline Sinclair Nance
1863–1940
Marriage: 1890
Martin Alfred Jackson
1891–1917
Mary Ida Jackson
1893–1971
Walter Elrod Jackson
1896–1896
Emmett Newton Jackson
1898–1968

Sources (10)

  • Emma Jackson, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Emma L S Nance, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  • Emma Nance Jackson, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1865 · Juneteenth (Slaves Were Freed)

"On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: ""The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."""

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of German Nantz .

Cornish: habitational name from any of the places so-named in Lelant, Saint Clement, Illogan, or Saint Martin in Meneage. The placenames derive from Middle Cornish nans ‘valley’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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