Nancy Sue Wilson (1937 - 2018)

Born 20 Feb 1937 in Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Wiley Murray Burton — married 22 May 1973 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States

Died 13 Dec 2018 at age 81 in Pioneertown, San Bernardino, California, United States

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Biography

Nancy Wilson is Notable.

Nancy Wilson is mainly known as a Grammy winning jazz singer (although she preferred to be called a "song stylist"). She also hosted her own TV show, The Nancy Wilson Show, acted, and was a civil rights advocate. She won numerous awards and honors for all of these endeavors.^[1]

Nancy was born on 20 Feb 1937 in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. She mainly grew up in Columbus, Ohio, with her father and stepmother, but she spent summers in Chillicothe at her grandmother Iva Myrtle (Johnson Ryan Austin) Wingo's home. She said that "I came from a very strong family - father, step-mother, mother and grandmother - and family was more important to me than career." She began her singing career in central Ohio while still in high school, then moved to New York in Oct 1859 to further her career. In 1960, she moved to California, where she lived for the rest of her life.^[2]

She married twice^[3][4][5] and had three children.^[2] When she visited home in Chillicothe in 1996 for the dedication of a street named after her, she was especially touched because, as she said, "I always felt I was immortal because I have children...Now my children can bring their children to see this."^[6]

Nancy died on 13 Dec 2018 at her home in Pioneertown, San Bernardino, California.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Wilson_(jazz_singer)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "Miss Nancy Wilson" articles by Janet Wilson, Chillicothe [Ohio] Gazette, 3 Mar 2002, page 1A & 8A; image copy, Newspapers.com (page 1A and page 8A : accessed 31 Jan 2022).
3. ↑ "California Marriage Index, 1960-1985," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V621-YKP : 27 November 2014), Kenneth C Dennis and Nancy S Wilson, 21 Dec 1960; citing Los Angeles, California, Center of Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento.
4. ↑ "California Divorce Index, 1966-1984," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPTQ-C2R : 27 November 2014), Nancy S Wilson and Kenneth C Dennis, Jul 1968; citing Los Angeles City, California, Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento.
5. ↑ "Nevada Marriage Index, 1956-2005", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VVLL-GS7 : 20 September 2019), Nancy Sue Wilson and Wiley M Burton, 1974.
6. ↑ "Wilson Way moves namesake to tears," by David Pollard, Chillicothe [Ohio] Gazette, 29 Apr 1996, page 6C; image copy, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93876781/ : accessed 31 Jan 2022).
7. ↑ "Nancy Wilson, Singer Who Bridged Jazz and Pop, Is Dead at 81," by Jim Farber, obituary, The New York Times, 14 Dec 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/obituaries/nancy-wilson-dead-jazz-singer.html, accessed 31 Jan 2022.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW8W-W77 : 9 January 2021), Nancy Wilson in household of Olden ? Wilson, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 93-118A, sheet 4B, line 46, family 124, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3244.