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Descendants of Pleasant NANCE

Generation No. 1

1. PLEASANT¹ NANCE was born Abt. 1814 in Henry or Pittsylvania County, VA, and died Abt. 1892. He married ELIZA F. BARKER November 15, 1836 in Irisburg, Henry County, VA, daughter of ALLEN BARKER and ISABELLE MCDANIEL.

Notes for PLEASANT NANCE:
1880 Census for Pulaski County shows a Joseph age 4 living with Pleasant and Eliza is this another son?

Pleasant was unable to read or write.

Not proven: Pleasants brother may have been Harden NANCE (q.v.) The two lived very close to each other and Pleasant has a son named Harden.

His father may have been John, as he had a son named John Allen NANCE, the John for his father and Allen for his wife's father, Allen BARKER. Then Pleasant's sone Elkanah named a child John Pleasant, which could be for his grandfather and father.

He was a farmer all his life, and owned land on Home (Holms) Creek, near Axton, at Boxwood, VA, which is near the Henry-Pittsylvania-Rockingham NC line. After the Civil War he moved to Montgomery County, then across the New River into Pulaski County, VA. Most of his children followed him. He purchased land on the New River, several miles from Radford. Most of it is now covered by the waters of Claytor Lake. After his death his wife lived on alone at the farm. She died a few years later. Both were buried on the farm.

From Henry Co. Records: February 27, 1856 will of Allen Barker mentions selling land to Pleasant Nance. Probated July 11, 1856.

Children of PLEASANT NANCE and ELIZA BARKER are:

ELKANAH "ALCANIE"² NANCE, b. March 29, 1846, Henry County, VA; d. February 27, 1913, Radford, VA.

ii.

CHARLES NANCE, b. October 30, 1844, Henry County, VA; d. TX.

iii.

HARDEN NANCE, b. October 20, 1839, Henry County, VA; d. October 1862.

Notes for HARDEN NANCE:
Never married. H was a soldier in the CSA. After the Battle of Winchester, VA, he returned home on a furlough. While there he died of measles. The army wished to exhume the body for identification as many tricks were used to evade service.

iv.

JOHN ALLEN NANCE, b. January 12, 1842, Henry County, VA; d. Pulaski County VA.

JAMES GARLAND "CROCKETT" NANCE, b. October 30, 1837; d. February 10, 1863, Henry County, VA.

vi.

HENRY F. NANCE, b. 1848; d. Pulaski County, VA.

vii.

RICHARD NANCE, b. January 30, 1856, Henry County, VA; d. January 30, 1856, Henry County, VA.

Notes for RICHARD NANCE:
Probably died infant, as his descendants know nothing of him, data found recorded in the Henry County, Birth Register.

viii.

SUSAN ISEBELL NANCE, b. September 11, 1856, Henry County, VA; m. THOMAS ELKINS, April 26, 1878, Pulaski County, VA.

ix.

SARAH NANCE, b. 1860, Henry County, VA; m. ALEXANDER EAST, February 09, 1892, Pulaski County, VA.

JOSEPH NANCE, b. 1857, Henry County, VA.

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