Nancy (Holloway) Hammontree (abt. 1779 - 1860)

Born about 1779 in North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of James Hammontree Sr. — married 30 Apr 1800 in Blount, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 10 Aug 1860 at about age 81 in Blount, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Nancy Holloway (Hammontree) was born in Lincoln Co., NC in about 1779. She was one of the unnamed females in the 1790 census enumeration of her father, Joseph Holloway. Nancy's older sister Sarah married Jeremiah Hammontree in Lincoln Co., NC in 1795, and then Nancy married James Hammontree in Blount Co., TN in 1800. The Holloway-Hammontree families began moving from North Carolina to Tennessee in about 1795. Joseph Holloway (1750-1820) was the only adult Holloway male who made this move at the time, and thus there is no other candidate to have been Nancy's father. Joseph was on the tax list in Blount County in 1800. His brother, the Rev. William "Billy" Holloway Jr. did not arrive in Tennessee until years later. Nancy's husband James Hammontree appears in early tax lists of Blount County beginning in 1800, enumerated alongside Holloway relatives who lived in the community of Six Mile, located in southern Blount County, Nancy and James seem to have lived in Six Mile until James was assigned property from the estate of George Wallace in 1808. This property was located about 10 miles west of Six Mile, situated in what was then Morganton, southwestern Blount County. This property was next door to James' parents, William and Patsy. Nancy died there in 1861. This area is now situated in Greenback, Loudon County. Two of Nancy's children (John and Sarah Ann) indicate in the 1880 census that their mother was born in North Carolina.

Sources

• Hammontree Genealogy: From Jonathan and Mary to Willaford and Ellen (Internet Version, Revised 2016).
• "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VN4G-4H8 : 4 December 2014), James Hammontree and Nancy Holoway, 30 Apr 1800; from "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing p. 76, Blount, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M8YS-NM8 : 30 December 2015), Nancy Hammontree in entry for Samuel Stout, 1860.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QVP9-QJ27 : 11 July 2016), Nancy Holloway Hammontree, 1859; Burial, Greenback, Loudon, Tennessee, United States of America, Craig's Chapel Cemetery; citing record ID 130780943, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com. (Note: states her year of death was 1859 but that cannot be correct since she was living with her daughter 1860 census.