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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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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