Nancy (Collins) Vanover (abt. 1799 - abt. 1870)

Born about 1799 in North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died about 1870 at about age 71 in Jenkins, Letcher County, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Sources

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8DP-SHB : 9 November 2014), Nancy Vanover in household of Daniel Vanover, Russell county, part of, Russell, Virginia, United States; citing family 1514, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZBJ-5KB : 30 December 2015), Nancy Vanover in entry for Daniel Vanover, 1860.

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXW1-BMP : 17 October 2014), Nancy Vanover in household of Daniel Vanover, Kentucky, United States; citing p. 3, family 16, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,994.

• The Mullins Families of East Ky & Southwest Va by Cornelius Carroll.

• The Vanover Family: Descendants of Cornelys Van Hovgem of Flatbush, Kings County, Long Island, New York, by Gregory Lynn Vanover, First Edition, Privately Printed, 1989, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Rte 4, Box 508C, Wilmington NC 28405. Page 104, #77.

Research Notes

See the Melungeon Roots Project. There are some sources say that Vanover was one of the names that is found in Melungeon families. The academic paper, Melungeons, A Multi-Ethnic Population, outlines that Collins was a Melungeon family that was found in North Carolina, and specifically Ashe County, North Carolina (see p. 21 of that paper). The paper also stated that some of the Melungeon families then migrated into Kentucky.

Ashe County, North Carolina is where a branch of the Vanover family was located. Here we have a Nancy Collins marrying into the Vanover family. She was born in North Carolina, although we don't know exactly where, but it was likely in Ashe County. Her and her husband, Daniel Vanover, moved to Kentucky sometime, as she died in Letcher County, Kentucky. DNA testing will likely be required to test this theory.

See more information at the Vanover Name Study, Melungeon Connection.