Nancy Mae Witten

Brief Life History of Nancy Mae

When Nancy Mae Witten was born on 21 December 1868, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States, her father, Thomas Graham Witten, was 46 and her mother, Eliza Ann Fudge, was 34. She married Charles William Greever on 24 December 1901, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in North Tazewell, Tazewell, Virginia, United States in 1900 and Jeffersonville District, Tazewell, Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 17 April 1949, in Tazewell, Tazewell, Virginia, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Tazewell, Tazewell, Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles William Greever
1852–1930
Nancy Mae Witten
1868–1949
Marriage: 24 December 1901
William Williams Greever
1894–1974
Mary Annella Greever
1903–1996
Lena Margaret Greever
1905–1973

Sources (16)

  • Nannie Greever, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Nannie M. Witten, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
  • Nannie Witten Greever, "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

Name Meaning

North German: patronymic from Witte .

English: variant of Whitton .

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

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