Henry
Anderson
Nance
Born in Franklin,North Carolina, United States
Ancestors 
Husband of
Eleanor Emeline (Word) Nance
— married
5 Mar 1846 (to 6 Mar 1867) in Eastport, Tishomingo, Mississippi, United States
Descendants 
Father of
James Word Nance, Amelia E Nance, Jennie E (Nance) Anfield, Emma B Nance, William Henry Nance and Fannie B Nance
Died
at age 51
in Rienzi, Alcorn, Mississippi, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Aug 2012
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Biography
Henry was born in on 23 December 1815 in Franklin County, North Carolina. He became a prominent businessmen in the crossroads town of Rienzi, Mississippi before the Civil War. He married Eleanor Emeline Word of Eastport, Mississippi on 5 March 1846, and they had six known children born between 1850 and 1867. [1]
Henry died in 1867 at age 51. His gravestone in the abandoned Rienzi cemetery includes a Masonic symbol (see Find A Grave photo). [2]
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6GK-JS8 : Tue Jul 18 00:46:02 UTC 2023), Entry for H A Nance and Nancy Nance, 1860.
- ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 August 2019), memorial page for Henry Anderson Nance (23 Dec 1815–6 Mar 1867), Find A Grave Memorial no. 50970402, citing Rienzi Cemetery, Rienzi, Alcorn County, Mississippi, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8) .
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Henry by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Henry by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Ronald Nance
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup I-Y48314, FTDNA kit #954964, MitoYDNA ID T14999 [compare]
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~0.39%
Davine (Moore) Roberts :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T541029 [compare], FTDNA kit #266883
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~0.39%
Charles Moore :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T724082 [compare], FTDNA kit #558911
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Kathy (Foote) Durham
Research note: Henry Anderson Nance was a prominent male in pre-Civil War Rienzi, Mississippi. Very likely that he came as a young man from North Carolina to the area near Rome, Georgia, during the 1830s around the time of the Cherokee Trail of Tears (1830s), along a multi-generational migration of Virginia families down the eastern edge of the Appalachian mountains. Nance is definitely a last name found in Virginia in previous generations. Check for links with the Word and Hooper families after the Revolutionary War!
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