When Nancy Sanders was born on 22 May 1812, in Knox, Kentucky, United States, her father, Henry B. Sanders Jr, was 22 and her mother, Susannah Inman, was 17. She married Hiram Hazel on 9 January 1839, in Bloomington Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. She lived in Indian Creek Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 2 October 1876, in Harrodsburg, Clear Creek Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Clover Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Clear Creek Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States.