Nancy Judson (Churchill) Harroun (1819)

Born 3 Jun 1819 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New York, United States

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She was educated in the schools of her native town, with a year at Mrs. Norman Nicholson's Seminary, and a private academy at Williamsville, N.Y. In 1828 she went with her father's family to Louth, Upper Canada, where her mother died, and she soon after went to live with her older sister, Almira, at Forestville, N.Y. where she finished her schooling at the private academy of Mrs. Charles LaBatte. In the fall of 1833 she returned to her father's home then at Sheakleyville, Pa.. Here she began her experience in school teaching which lasted until her marriage. Her husband was the son of Capt. Elliott Harroun of Pembroke, N.Y. where he was born. Two children were born to them in Sheakleyville but died in infancy. They removed to Wisconsin in 1844 and settled in the township of Rosendale, being the fourth family to settle there, but within a few months were joined by a score of families, mostly from the East. The removed a little later to Sparta, Wis.. Here they prospered as the town grew rapidly, and Mr. Harroun being a carpenter, found profitable employment; but the fever of the West was still strong so they removed again in 1856 to Kansas with their four children, the oldest about 13 years. They found themselves in the midst of the war of "Border Ruffianism" and after two years were glad to get back to the North and settle amongst civilized people, in Dodge Co., Wis. Here their eldest boy died, and the husband met with an accident which rendered him unfit for work for some years, so that Mrs. Harroun was forced to resort to teaching again for her family's support. This teaching she continued for 12 years while her children grew up and became helpful as teachers and her husband became fit to work again having recovered in part, and the family prospered again

Sources

• The history of the Harroun family in America: seven generations; descendants of Alexander Harroun of Colrain, Mass. Dallas, Comstock. 1940.
• Churchill Family in America by Gardner Asaph Churchill, Nathaniel

Wiley Churchill, and George M Bodge, editor;1904 publication by the family.