When William Edward Nance was born on 22 October 1849, in Cadiz, Trigg, Kentucky, United States, his father, Barton Garrett Nance, was 26 and his mother, Lavisa S Harrison, was 29. He married Dora L Hornbuckle on 29 December 1880, in Bates, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Woodland Park, Teller, Colorado, United States in 1900 and Jefferson Township, Cedar, Missouri, United States in 1910. He died on 6 January 1917, in Cedar, Missouri, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Lindley Prairie Cemetery, Bearcreek, Cedar, Missouri, United States.
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According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
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’.
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