Brief Life History of Nancy Clair
When Nancy Clair Snelgrove was born on 9 January 1852, in Snell, Clarke, Mississippi, United States, her father, Lemuel Gregory Snelgrove, was 34 and her mother, Margaret Fleming, was 26. She married John Sullivan in 1746, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States. She lived in Clark, Greene, Mississippi, United States in 1860. She died on 21 February 1899, in Snell, Clarke, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Buckatunna Baptist Church, Wayne, Mississippi, United States.
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- N S Snelgrove in household of L G Snelgrove, "United States Census, 1860"
- Nancy Clair Snellgrove Hughes, "Find A Grave Index"
- Nancy C. Shelgrove in entry for John L. Hughes, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
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1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English (Wiltshire and Hampshire): variant of Snelgar, from the Middle English personal name Snelgar (Old English Snelgār, from snel ‘quick, brisk’ + gār ‘spear’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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