Nancy Brown was born in December 1821 in Illinois supposedly near Bellevue now Belleville. She is the daughter of Benjamin Brown and Elizabeth Brown.[1]
She married(1) Henry Workman 14 March 1839 in Adams Co., Illinois. [2]
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 3[3]
She married(2) John Erwin 10 June 1848 in Jerseyville, Illinois.[4]
1850 census -- Lima, Adams Co., Illinois, USA
John Erwin, age 26, male, , farmer, $200 real estate, born Tennessee; Nancy Erwin, age 27, female, , born Illinois; Benjamin F Workman, age 9, male, , born Illinois, attended school; Sarah E Workman, age 6, female, , born Illinois; Lucy E Erwin, age 1, female, , born Illinois[5]
1860 census -- Jerseyville, Jersey Co., Illinois, USA
John Erwin, age 37, male, , farmer $600 personal property, born Tennessee; Nancy Erwin, age 39, female, , born Tennessee; Sarah Erwin, age 17, female, , born Illinois, attended school; Wm W. Erwin, age 10, male, , born Illinois, attended school; Emm B Erwin, age 7, female, , born Illinois, attended school; James B Erwin, age 6, male, , born Illinois; Edwin C Erwin, age 4/12, male, , born Illinois.[6]
1870 census -- Jersey Co., Illinois, USA
John Irvine, age 46, male, white, farmer, $2200 real estate, $550 personal property, born Tennessee, cannot write; Nancy Irvine, age 47, female, white, keeping house, born Illinois; Emma Irvine, age 17, female, white, at home, born Illinois, attended school; Byron Irvine, age 16, male, white, at home, born Illinois, attended school; Edward C Irvine, age 11, male, white, at home, born Illinois, attended school; Ida May Irvine, age 9, female, white, at home, born Illinois, attended school.[7]
1880 census -- Ruyle Twnp., Jersey Co., Illinois, USA
Sam Rhoads, white, male, age 25, married, farmer, born Illinois, father born Kentucky, mother born Ohio; Emma Rhoads, white, female, age 25, wife, married, keeping house, born Illinois, father born Tennessee, mother born Tennessee; Laurence Rhoads, white, male, age 9/12 (Aug), son, single, born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born Illinois; C Rhoads, white, female, age 36, sister, single, born Illinois, father born Kentucky, mother born Ohio; Nancy Erwin, white, female, age 58, mother-in-law, born Illinois, father born Indiana, mother born Kentucky.[8]
She died 28 September 1894 in Jersey Co., Illinois. She is buried in Lax Cemetery in English Twnp., Jersey Co., Illinois.[9]
Sources
↑ White, David Ellison, "The Ancestors and Descendants of Carolus (Charles) White and Margareta Van Culen", (Marlborough, N.H.: D.E. White, 1995), pp. 393
↑ "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q288-6LLV : 22 July 2021), Henry Workman and Nancy Brown, 14 Mar 1839; citing Adams, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 1,845,384.
↑ "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHBJ-SVC : accessed 21 December 2015), Henry L Workman, Quincy Township, Adams, Illinois, United States; citing p. 50, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 54; FHL microfilm 7,641.
↑ "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/Q292-RC4Y : 4 March 2016), John Erwin and Nancy Workman, 10 Jun 1848; citing Jerseyville, Jersey, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 1,317,902.
↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M85F-YKT : 12 April 2016), Nancy Queen in household of John Queen, Lima, Adams, Illinois, United States; citing family 2, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
↑ "United States Census, 1860," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MX4Y-XDC : accessed 21 December 2015), Nancy Erwin in household of John Erwin, Jerseyville Precinct, Jersey, Illinois, United States; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing p. 237, household ID 208, NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 803,188.
↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M6W7-XQ7 : accessed 21 December 2015), Nancy Irvine in household of John Irvine, Illinois, United States; citing p. 21, family 142, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,732.
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22970303/nancy-erwin: accessed ), memorial page for Nancy Brown Erwin (4 Dec 1821–28 Sep 1894), Find A Grave: Memorial #22970303, citing Lax Cemetery, Jersey County, Illinois, USA; Maintained by Diane & John (contributor 46842343).
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