Nancy Amos’s parents were Nicholas Day Amos, Sr. and Christiana Ditto. Nancy married William Conaway.[1]
Information about her children and where the family lived is given in the WikiTree profile for her husband William Conaway.
Nancy apparently died sometime after 1833. According to court records, she was alive in Bourbon County, Kentucky on July 29, 1828 when the sheriff served her a summons for a court case about her father’s estate.[1] The 1830 US census for the William Conaway family in Tazewell County, Illinois included a woman age 60-69 that was presumably Nancy.[2] A book about the history of McLean County, Illinois said that the first religion classes were in 1831 and included William and Nancy Conaway.[3] As described in the WikiTree profile for her husband William Conaway, the records for the estate sale in 1833 for her husband’s estate included purchases by Nancy Conaway.
Nancy Conaway and her husband William were probably buried in the “old Conaway Cemetery” just south of the town of Le Roy, in McLean County, Illinois. As described at "Old Conaway Cemetery at Le Roy, Illinois",[4] the gravestones were lost and the site was abandoned as a cemetery many decades in the past.
The birth year of about 1765 is given without sources (as of September, 2021).
The book Children of Mt. Soma: Baltimore (now in Harford County), Maryland[5] (1992) says on page 124 that Nancy (Amos) Conaway died in 1826 near LeRoy, Illinois. However, five lines down on the same page the book also says that “They moved from Bourbon Co, KY, to McLean Co, IL, in 1829.” The claim that Nancy died in Illinois in 1826 is not consistent with the claim that they moved to Illinois in 1829. As noted above, the claim that Nancy died in 1826 is not consistent with other records that have much greater credibility than this book.
This book has many errors. Other errors are described in the Research Notes section of the WikiTree profile for Nancy’s husband William Conaway. Any claim in this book needs to be verified with other sources before being accepted. This includes the claims that Nancy Amos was born in 1768 and married c.1885.
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