When Nancy Hundley Nash was born on 10 February 1805, in Lincoln, Kentucky, United States, her father, Arthur Beau Nash Sr, was 24 and her mother, Milly Tomes, was 20. She married Christopher Miller on 13 August 1825, in Edmonson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Grayson, Kentucky, United States in 1850. She died on 29 April 1868, in Edmonson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Big Reedy, Edmonson, Kentucky, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Grayson county was organized in 1810, out of parts of Ohio and Hardin counties — the 54th formed in the state— and named in honor of Col. Wm. Grayson.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree, a variant of Ash by misdivision of Middle English atten ash ‘at the ash’, or a habitational name from any of the many places in England and Wales named Nash, from this phrase, as for example Nash in Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire, or Shropshire. The name was established from an early date in Wales and Ireland.
Jewish: possibly an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
History: The surname Nash was taken to Ireland from England or Wales by a family who established themselves in County Kerry in the 13th century, during the second wave of Anglo-Norman settlement. — Abner Nash (c. 1740–86), governor of NC, was of Welsh origin, his parents having emigrated to VA from Wales in 1730. His brother Francis (c. 1742–77) was a general in the Continental army; the city of Nashville, TN, was named in his honor.
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