Eleanor Emeline (Word) Nance (1829 - 1910)

Born 23 Nov 1829 in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Anderson Nance — married 5 Mar 1846 (to 6 Mar 1867) in Eastport, Tishomingo, Mississippi, United States

Descendants

Died 29 Apr 1910 at age 80 in Smith, Cross, Arkansas, USA

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Biography

Eleanor Word, known as Nancy to family and friends, was born on November 23,1829 in Rome, Georgia, the third of nine children born to James Word and Amelia Hooper. Her father had migrated from Mt. Surry in North Carolina to the cotton frontier in western Georgia which had recently been "cleared" of native peoples. He settled on a plantation near Rome, Georgia, a frontier area where the planting of cotton was booming.

[Add Eastport/Iuka, marriage at age 16 to trader in Reinzi]

From at least 1855 to 1865, Nancy and her husband lived in Rienzi, Mississippi, which was a crossroads on the early trading routes in the area south of Corinth. The tracks for the Mobile and Ohio railroad were being laid there in 1855. Nancy's younger sister Amelia Word Foote, a widow with two young children, lived with Nancy and her children from 1861-1863.

Add: Buried in Iuka near her father (add Find A Grave). Listed in censuses there after Civil War.

Sources

• 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Year: 1860; Census Place: Tishomingo, Mississippi; Roll: M653_593; Page: 155; Family History Library Film: 803593