Nancy was born in Arkansas in 1924 to Emmett Bernard Jeffery and Allie Caldwell Jeffery.
Her mother passed away in a flood in the late 1920s, and she lived with her Caldwell grandparents, and her grandmother passed away a year later. In 1930 Census, she is living with her aunt in Detroit. [1]
By 1940, she is living with several teenaged cousins and siblings with her Caldwell grandparents in Arkansas again.[2]
In 1944, she married her Karl Fehd before he went to the Navy in WWII. They had 4 children, and were life-long military family, living in Guam, and Hawaii, and Florida. They retired in Florida where 3 of their 4 children later settled.
She passed away in 2003 in Florida.
Annotated biography
Born
3 May 1924.
Jacksonport, Arkansas.
[3][2][1][4]
abt 1924.
Arkansas
[4]Found multiple copies of birth date. Using 3 May 1924
Residence
1930. Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Daughter.
1940. Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Granddaughter.
1940.
Jacksonport, Jackson, Arkansas, USA. Living in home of grandparents Charles and Bertie Caldwell, with 6 children, all teenagers, all listed as grandchildren. Nancy plus her 2 siblings, and another family of teens
[4]
Detroit, Michigan.
[2]
Marriage
9 Dec 1943. Marriage to Karl Fehd of Indiana.
Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA.
[5]
Marriage.
Wayne, Michigan.
[6]
↑ 2.02.12.2
Source: S1721964841 Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, MI, USA; Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952; Film: 323; Film Title: 82 Wayne 302160-305469; Film Description: Wayne (Dates TBD) Ancestry Record 9093 #4482703
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Source: S1721964841 Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, MI, USA; Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952; Film: 323; Film Title: 82 Wayne 302160-305469; Film Description: Wayne (Dates TBD) Ancestry Record 9093 #4482703
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Source: S1721964841 Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, MI, USA; Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952; Film: 323; Film Title: 82 Wayne 302160-305469; Film Description: Wayne (Dates TBD) Ancestry Record 9093 #4482703
Source: S1721964834 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2015 Provo, UT, USA Record Collection 60901
Source: S1721964841 Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2015 Provo, UT, USA Record Collection 9093
Source: S1721964858 1930 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc 2002 Provo, UT, USA Record Collection 6224 Note: Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930
Source: S1721964866 1940 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2012 Provo, UT, USA Record Collection 2442 Note: Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940
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