Born 69 years before, part 3

Her first 7 children were born in Perry County, AL.  

Then the next child was born in Union Parish, LA and the next in Marion, Union Parish, LA.  Unfortunately, her last child is just given a birth date, and no place of birth, and I think this was really a grandchild.

If you read my post that mentioned how Perry County was trying to establish the capital of Alabama, you might wonder why the family moved to Union Parish, LA by 1840.  I don't have an answer to that.   Union Parish is on the border with Arkansas...where there's a Union County as well.

Another bit of sleuthing shows some impossible birth dates, one child born in Dec of 1835, the next one born on Jan 1 of 1836, and the next born also in 1836.  

As my ancestress was her second child, I'm not going to spend any energy beyond pointing out these flaws.

Census reports show a household which moved between 1850 and 1860 to Texas. Her husband in 1860 was living in a separate listing than she had, but in the same county of Walker, Texas.  At 56 she was living in Walker County, TX with son, John T.  (age 27) James E. (age 4) and Nancy E. (age 11.)  I'm pretty sure James E. is a grandson, and not her own, since she would have been age 52 when he was born in 1856.  Nancy E. could possibly be her own child, born when she was 45.

After she was widowed at age 64 she lived with her various children's families in Walker County Texas, as was the custom.
 
Her husband died in 1868, so the 1870 census of Walker County shows her living with Champion Powell, (age 38) and his wife, Maggie, their 3 children and Nancy's son John (33.)

At age 76 in the 1880 census, Nancy is listed as; Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Mother, living with John (Y?) Powell, farmer, age 37.  These census records have mistakes of course, human error can compound upon another error.  And people may not have always known how old another person was who lived with them.  So the next census has John just age 37.

She died at age 77, on June 27, 1881.
Her grave is in Old Waverly, Texas, a ghost town that the railroad passed by.

Nancy Jones Traylor Powell

 

Born 69 years before, part 2

Nancy Jones Traylor Powell married in Perry County, AL in 1822.

Several census reports in Alabama and Louisiana also show her family lived close to other Traylor families.  Some of these families moved to Texas as well as her own.

There are also other Powells (her mother's kin)  nearby often in the records.  Her census even included Traylor children of her siblings living in her home.

I wrote a bit about these families Here.

Her father, Champion Travis Traylor, Sr. was born in Virginia (1770 – 1832) and he fought in the War of 1812.  (Post about him was HERE.)

He received a land grant as many other soldiers did in Perry County, AL.

Her mother,  Sarah Jones Traylor (1780 – 1847) was also born in Virginia, and didn't move further than Union Parish, Louisiana.

Great X3 Granny Nancy married James Moore Powell when she was 18 and he was 31, in Perry, Alabama. (His blog was HERE.)  

They had 10 children born in the different states to which the moved.  (Remember my skepticism about some children that Ancestry.com lists as part of a family. When families have cousins being raised in their household, especially with the same last name, you have to look closely at a census and hope there's a record of nephew or niece.)

I'll continue more information about Granny Nancy tomorrow.

 

Born 69 years before her, Part 1.

Nancy Jones Traylor Powell

Birth 16 May 1804 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia

Death 27 Jun 1881 in Old Waverly, Walker, Texas

I started this blog about the year I was 69.  All the adventure, some not so great, that happened in that year.  Then I noticed that the grandmother after whom I was named was born 69 years before myself...though she didn't live to be 69.

And I knew eventually I'd look for someone who was born 69 years before her.

Here she is. 

Now how is she my great x3 grandmother? 

My father's father was George Rogers.  
His mother was Bette Bass Rogers (see her blog Here).
Her mother was Mary Ann Elizabeth Powell Bass, (see blog about her HERE).
Her mother was Nancy Jones Traylor Powell.

I first looked into her life on a blog last year HERE.  At that time I was just learning things about her, and a year later I've found more than I expected, some of which is questionable.

According to Ancestry.com, she had 14 siblings.  She was the third child in the family.  One of her brothers, also born in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, died where she did in Walker County, Texas, Dr. John Randolph Traylor, (1807-1864).  

Her parents, Champion Travis Traylor, Sr. and Sarah Jones Traylor, moved to Selma, Alabama by the birth of their 10th child in 1817.  They had their next child born in Perry County, Alabama in 1819.  

In 1821 a son was born back in Jaspar, GA (listed in Ancestry as living till 1855) who was given the same name as their living son, Champion Travis Traylor, Jr. (1809-1877)  I find this highly unlikely, don't you?

In 1822 back in Perry County, AL, another child was born, then Ancestry lists 2 more children of these parents without birth dates or places.  Another highly unlikely connection.

So I'll make an assumption of the Traylors having maybe only 11 of the 14 listed children.

Come back tomorrow as I review more of this great times 3 grandmother.