Cary Dewitt Nance

Brief Life History of Cary Dewitt

When Cary Dewitt Nance was born on 16 February 1842, in Tippah, Mississippi, United States, his father, Thomas Clinton Nance, was 29 and his mother, Judith Emily Pope, was 21. He lived in Northern Division, Marshall, Mississippi, United States in 1860. He died in April 1864, at the age of 22.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Clinton Nance
1812–1855
Judith Emily Pope
1820–1874
Martha Ann Nance
1839–1924
Mary Jane Nance
1840–1844
Cary Dewitt Nance
1842–1864
Thomas J Nance
1844–1862
Louisa Palmyra Nance
1846–1853
Lemuel Jasper Nance
1848–1885
William Thomas Nance
1850–1933
Sarah F. Nance
1852–1859
Robert Mack Nance
1854–1922
John Wesley Nance
1856–1900

Sources (3)

  • Cary D M C Nance in household of Thomas C Nance, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Carey Dewitt Nance, "Find A Grave Index"
  • C D C Nance in household of Judith E Nance, "United States Census, 1860"

World Events (3)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

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.

Name Meaning

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’.

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

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