Nancy Rebecca Spradling was born on 4 Mar 1848 in Dickson, Tennessee to parents Obediah Madison Spradling and Caroline Brown.
She married Allen Preston Thompson on 27 Dec 1871 in Dickson, Tennessee.
Children: Sarah Alice 1872-1960, Mary Elizabeth 1874-1907, Nancy Carolinia 1877-1901, Jimmie Austin 1879-1962.
She died in 1901 in Dickson, Tennessee.
Alan Preston Thompson married secondly Mary J Twombly (Rankin) on 20 Oct 1887 in Perry, Arkansas. Children: Augusta, Myrtle G, Mary L.
From Lola Thompson, granddaughter of Nancy Rebecca Spradling and Alan Preston Thompson: "Alan Preston was 18 years old when he married Nancy R Spradling. She was 28 years. Alan Preston was redheaded, blue eyed, with freckles. Nancy R was dark haired, brown eyed and dark complexioned. Alan Preston was a "Romeo" and was noted to leave his wife and be gone sometimes for years. From what I got from Aunt Susie Thompson in Charlotte, Tennessee, Alan went to Kentucky and worked for a country doctor that taught him everything to become a doctor. He practiced medicine and died at age 61 in Tampico, Old Mexico of the fever. He was in the Mexican Army.
Aunt Alice, Dad's sister, married Robert U Taylor and they had 11 children, nine sons and two daughters. She told me she was about 9 years of age in 1881 when their father, Alan Preston, came home late one evening on a beautiful horse and brought gifts for all the four children. Her mother sent Alice down to Granny Smith's home with a note to come quickly and she did and prepared to stay the night. They had talked about this, that if Alan Preston ever came back, she was not going to let him share her bed.
Alan was not pleased about this and rode off, never to come back. Aunt Alice Taylor said she loved her father and cried because he left and couldn't understand why her mother acted like she did. But Nancy Rebecca found out Alan had another family in Kentucky in 1875 before Dad was born and she swore she was not going to have any more children by Alan.
Grandma Thompson worked like a man in the fields to make enough money to ride a train to Burnet, Texas, where her brothers had moved to from Tennessee. Dad was two years old at the time and the train only came as far as Round Rock, Texas, and one of the Spradling brothers met Grandma Thompson and her four children in an ox wagon and it took them four days to get to the Spradling farm in Burnet County, about 50 miles. Later Grandma Thompson's sisters and I believe her mother came to Texas to live. I visited the old Thompson home place in Tennessee, also family cemetery, and saw where Dad was born."
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