The assumption that Nancy Rebecca was born in 1831 and was still living with her widowed mother in 1850 is a mis-reading of the 1850 Census of DIstrict 2, Graves County, Kentucky (taken on 25 Jul 1850), dwelling 8, family 8, where we find John's widow Nancy, 53, son Lucian, 26, son Lafahgette, 24, [daughter-in-law] Rebeccah, 19, and grandson Henry C, 2. The Rbeccah here is Llucian's wife Ann Rebecca Lochridge, born 31 Jan 1831, and both here with their son Henry Clay, 2. .Nancy Rebecca either died by 1850 or had married someone we do not know.
John W. Grubbs
A letter written by John Anderson on 16 Jun 1838 confirms that Nancy Rebecca had died and by the date of the letter had been buried in the Anderson Family Cemetery in Mayfield: "My family cemetery is situated about 300 yards north of the courthouse on a narrow wedge of land on the right side and overlooking the western road to Paducah. Here now I have six children buried and have only five left. . . . And here I intend to be buried myself." Virginia Dunn Kraut, The Dunn-Anderson Story (Ripon, Wisconsin Schenke Printing, 1980), p. 86.
The assumption that Nancy Rebecca was born in 1831 and was still living with her widowed mother in 1850 is a mis-reading of the 1850 Census of DIstrict 2, Graves County, Kentucky (taken on 25 Jul 1850), dwelling 8, family 8, where we find John's widow Nancy, 53, son Lucian, 26, son Lafahgette, 24, [daughter-in-law] Rebeccah, 19, and grandson Henry C, 2. The Rbeccah here is Llucian's wife Ann Rebecca Lochridge, born 31 Jan 1831, and both here with their son Henry Clay, 2. .Nancy Rebecca either died by 1850 or had married someone we do not know.
John W. Grubbs
A letter written by John Anderson on 16 Jun 1838 confirms that Nancy Rebecca had died and by the date of the letter had been buried in the Anderson Family Cemetery in Mayfield: "My family cemetery is situated about 300 yards north of the courthouse on a narrow wedge of land on the right side and overlooking the western road to Paducah. Here now I have six children buried and have only five left. . . . And here I intend to be buried myself." Virginia Dunn Kraut, The Dunn-Anderson Story (Ripon, Wisconsin Schenke Printing, 1980), p. 86.
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