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Nancy Agnes (Gillespie) Houston (abt. 1763 - abt. 1816)

Nancy Agnes Houston formerly Gillespie aka Bowen
Born about in Augusta County, Colony of Virginiamap [uncertain]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of — married 21 Jan 1793 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died about at about age 52 in Blount, Tennessee, United Statesmap [uncertain]
Profile last modified | Created 24 Dec 2011
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Biography

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Nancy (Gillespie) Houston has Scottish Ancestors.

Nancy Agnes Gillespie married twice.

She married first Charles Bowen[1] who was a Loyalist and may have died in the Battle of King's Mountain[2] fought 7 October 1780 in South Carolina.

She married second Samuel Houston on 21 January 1793 in Blount County, Tennessee.[3]

Children

Samuel and Nancy had the following children (dates estimated):

  1. William G. Houston (1793-1849), d. age 56.
  2. Esther F. "Hettie" Houston Cowan (1795-1850), d. age 55.
  3. Mary Davidson Houston Mitchell (1797-1879), d. age 82.
  4. Matthew Cyrus Houston (1799-1872), d. age 72.
  5. Robert Finley Houston (1802-1889), d. age 86.
  6. John Houston (1804-1853), d. age 49, Jasper, Jasper, Texas; no cemetery.
  7. Martha Cyrena Houston Echols (1808-1875), d. age 65.
  8. Samuel A. Houston (1810-1898), d. age 88.
  9. Luther Gillespie Houston (1810-1863), d. age 45.
  10. James Houston (1812-1880), d. age 68; no cemetery.

Research Notes

  • Needs Research: Research into the life events and family of this person is needed. Vital statistics and relationships (birth, parents, marriage, children, death) need citations for primary sources. Spratlin-29 18:05, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Conflated Persons

See Deconflation of Gillespies of the Colony of Virginia.

Presumed Parents

Some presume Nancy Agnes (Gillespie) Houston (1763-1816) is the daughter of:

Some presume Mary is Mary (Glendinning) Gillespie (-1797).

Disputed Origins

We're still researching this family. As Wiiliam Gillespie, Jr was born in South Carolina and the colonies were still fighting the French Indian War, the Gillespies seemed to have left their plantation 3 years before. They had one child in Pennsylvania and then another in South Carolina. Some research ways Nancy was the last born to William Gillespie and Mary (Glendinning) Gillespie, 7 Jan 1763. But it looks as if her older brother was born in South Carolina, and then she was married and died in Tennessee. It seems unlikely they went back up to Cowpasture.[citation needed] I think we need more research for Nancy.

There was research that showed Nancy was born about 1771 (alternate birth between 1770-1776 and alternate birth place Blount County Tennessee). This is unlikely as she first married Charles Bowen.

As her brother was born in South Carolina, her parents died in South Carolina, it seems there may be an inconsistency here. There are a lot of inconsistencies in this family.

Birth

Alteratively, Agnes was born in 1750.

Marriage

An unsourced marriage date of 1774 in Augusta County, Virginia, to Charles Bowen was listed in a profile merged into this profile.

Death

Some research states that Nancy died in Blount County, Tennessee in 1816.[4] But then she passed away in 1816 in Lauderdale County, Alabama.[5]

Sources

  1. Tennessee Historical Society, Married Charles Bowen.
  2. Encyclopedia Britanica, Battle of Kings Mountain.
  3. We Relate, Nancy married Samuel Houston.
  4. See WeRelate Profile in "Marriage".
  5. Find A Grave: Memorial #125249394 for Nancy Agnes Gillespie Houston (1771–1816) (memorial only, no headstone photo).

See also:

  • DAR records of paternal grandmother Gladys Roby Spaar : referenced by : Scot Spaar Jonte.
  • U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, shown in record of husband Samuel Houston. SAR member #77923.

See also - other family trees:

  • Find A Grave: Memorial #125249394 for Nancy Agnes Gillespie Houston (1771–1816) (memorial only, no headstone photo).




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Gillespie-608 and Gillespie-445 appear to represent the same person because: Same name, same husband
posted by Neal Parker
US Southern Colonies Project Managed Profiles Team adding PMP/PPP—disputed relationships. Please continue to manage normally, and coordinate edits with the Project.
posted by Ken Spratlin
The mother Mary (Glendinning) Gillespie (-1797) has remained unsourced for many months. I proposed to detach the unsourced mother, and will do so on 15 Feb 2023 unless a reliable source for this relationship can be provided.
posted by Ken Spratlin
Gillespie-5631 and Gillespie-445 appear to represent the same person because: I have seen her name both as Agnes Nancy and Nancy Agnes. I think they can be merged we will still need to split Nancy Bowen and Nancy Houston apart but are working on that.
posted by Timothy Upton
@Andrew! *waves*

Timothy and I are now piloting Nancy Agnes (Gillespie) Bowen. He thinks its possible Nancy Agnes is actually Agnes which is entirely possible as Middle Names were often used as first names. I'm thinking we can merge Nancy Agnes and Agnes as we sort through the particulars of these two women. Do you have any thoughts about a merge?

posted on Gillespie-5631 (merged) by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
Amanda, thank you for your work, and yes I totally agree about the middle name thing (still happens to this day!). Therefore I am not opposed to a merge if you and Timothy think it should happen.
posted on Gillespie-5631 (merged) by Andrew Barocco
@ Timothy: I found the Houston discussion on genealogy.com [1]. Apparently according to their records, Isabella Houston m. William Gillespie Sr. from Ulster. Also there's a Houston that also died in the battle of Kings Mountain.

This information is not definitive, but, we ("I") should be open to the possibility that Nancy Agnes (from the Falkirk Gillespies) did not marry a Houston and may never have had children. We need to start from scratch. Important for my purposes is that William and Mary had an 11th child named Nancy who was born after her brother William in South Carolina. The Houstons may have been part of the William Gillespie from Ulster. where'd Nancy go? Did she have descendants?

posted by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
edited by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
Thanks. I think that the Nancy that married Charles Bowen has a DOB closer to 1750 as Charles was born about 1749. The Bowen’s lived on the James River very close to the William on Cow Pasture so it would make since that the two Gillespie sisters married Bowen brothers. From what i have seen Charles did not die until about 1833, his brother Rees died in the battle at Kings Mountain. This would mean that Nancy would not have remarried but I have not looked at Samuel Houston very close yet.
posted by Timothy Upton
edited by Timothy Upton
Amanda, One other thing to ponder….. Nancy Agnes and sibling Agnes may be the same person as I have seen her named both ways.
posted by Timothy Upton
I assume by the "Bowens" you mean the oldest sister Mary and her husband [[Bowen-908|Robert Pickens Bowen] right? that would make sense that they would live near her father.

We know Nancy Agnes married Charles and that he fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain (See Tennessee Historical Society fn.

I have a habit of buzzing right through information while looking up for something else so don't write down notes that might be important when they're about something else. I am terrible at multi-tasking.

I've dropped a comment in Andrew Barrocco's comment for gnes to see if he'd be amenable to merging files as these dates are not very solid.

posted by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
Yes when I say Bowens I mean Charles and Roberts parents owned land on the James river not far from William on cowpasture.

I do the same thing while researching. While going through all of this Gillespie stuff I have noticed that my mothers family is also in Virginia in the same area. The Skillern’s and the Anderson’s. Needless to say because I was only looking for Gillespie and Bowen information I skimmed over it. I’ll have to circle back later

posted by Timothy Upton
Gillespie-5631 PM Andrew agrees we should merge this Nancy Agnes with Gillespie-5631. do you agree? and I'm not so sure its necessary to split out Nancy Agnes. Let's bring in Gillespie-608 and work on the file together. is that ok? I'm not invested in the Houstons...
posted by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
edited by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
I have initiated the merge. It will be great to start getting these things cleaned up. Thanks Amanda for reaching out to Andrew.
posted by Timothy Upton
I marked Gillespie-608 as unmerged match. We can use it to split Nancy Bowen and Nancy Houston apart when we are ready.
posted by Timothy Upton
Hey Timothy! Are you really MIA? Can you then make me PM so I can fix this profile? Your cooperation would be most appreciated.
posted by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
Amanda, I was looking at this profile tonight and I think there are some problems. I’m going to take a closer look at things tomorrow but I believe that profiles were merged that should not have been. Nancy Agnes Gillespie was born around 1753 she later married Charles Bowen born 1749 in Virginia and had at least three sons it appears that they were in Tennessee for a while where Nancy may have died. Charles later moved to Indiana to live with a son and died in Indiana sometime after 1832. This Nancy Agnes Gillespie never married Samual Houston. I also think that there is a duplicate profiles for both Nancy Agnes Gillespie and husband Charles Bowen with the correct birthdates.

Looked at it some more this morning…….

Find a grave for Nancy Agnus Gillespie Houston states that her mothers name was Isabella Henderson per DAR application. Houston per marriage record to William. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125249394/nancy-agnes-houston I also see on family search that they have her father listed as William Gillespie. According to the profiles on FamilySearch both of her parents were born in Ireland. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCMX-9WN

Do you have an issue with splitting Nancy Gillespie Bowen and Nancy Gillespie Houston apart and merging any duplicates that may be out there?

posted by Timothy Upton
edited by Timothy Upton
We can split her apart and reapproach her piece by piece. I have no problem with this.

We may disagree with the sources, but we can take advantage of the sources Southern Colonies Project that gives us a library and standards for reliable and nonreliable sources -- what do you think? Many FindaGrave profiles are unsourced. So can we approach this with stronger sources than FAG which hsitories are often unsourced?

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posted by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
Amanda,

I have added you a a PM to this profile. We can work on splitting them together. Once split I do not need to be a PM on Nancy Houston. I think it important that we keep Nancy Gillespie Bowen as Gillespie-445 as that is how the profile was started.

Tim

posted by Timothy Upton
I apologize. I didn't realize you have her attached to a different family entirely. Can we work together to find the real history here? It is entirely possible she doesn't belong with our family at all. I must say, though, she apparently married Charles Bowen first according to the Tennessee Historical Magazine.

We related has her attached to my Scottish William Gillespie and convoluted with your family. Both websites would love to get this straighted out.

Your cooperation would be most appreciated.

posted on Gillespie-4632 (merged) by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
edited by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
Gillespie-445 and Gillespie-4632 appear to represent the same person because: Gillespie-445 was a mess. It was attached to the wrong husband. Nancy Agnes married Samuel Houston. I'm correcting her profile.
posted on Gillespie-4632 (merged) by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
Nancy Agnes Gillespie needed a major overhaul. Gillespie-445 was attached to the wrong husband so we need now to merge them. Thank you for your patience and cooperation.
posted on Gillespie-4632 (merged) by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
@Hi Robin! :D

Why do we think Nancy Agnes Gillespie Ferguson ever married John Bowen? All her children are Fergusons. Thomas Ferguson apparently died in Indiana in 1836 There is a grandchild through a youngest child who was born and died in Indiana. Even on Just a cursory glance, this looks like the family moved to Indiana.

There is a published Family history of the Bowens mentioning Mary (Gillespie) Bowen, not Nancy Agnes; Also John Bowen m. Rachel Matthews and settled on the James River in Boutetourt Virginia and he and Rachel had 5 children. [1]

If John is your ancestor, can we connect John with the right wife please? your thoughts?

posted by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
edited by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
I need to look at this closer. I think someone merged two profiles.
posted by Robin White
I am simply cleaning up bio after the merge
posted by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
Gillespie-5982 and Gillespie-4632 appear to represent the same person because: Duplicate just have to work out exact birth date.
posted on Gillespie-4632 (merged) by Loretta Morrison
Gillespie-4632 and Gillespie-5982 appear to be the same person same husband... just need to resolve her birth place. I have set as an unmerged match for the profile managers to work that part out.
posted on Gillespie-5982 (merged) by Loretta Morrison