THIS IS A CROSSROADS SIGN SOMEWHERE IN RANDOLPH COUNTY,NORTH CAROLINA.
THIS IS WHERE OUR ANCESTOR DANIEL NANCE SETTLED.
PHOTE BY ROBERT NANCE OF FORT WORTH,TEXAS
GO TO HIS SITE TO READ WHAT HE HAS LEARNED.
NANCE IS THE NAME,GENEALOGY THE GAME
OBITUARY OF SOLOMON ELSON NANCE
SOLOMON ELSON NANCE WAS BORN IN NORTH CAROLINA, DECEMBER 16,1840 AND DIED AT DIXON,IL.,NOVEMBER 8,1923,AGE 82 YEARS, 10 MONTHS, AND 23 DAYS.
DECEASED WAS TWICE MARRIED BUT THE TIME, PLACE AND NAME OF HIS FIRST WIFE ARE NOT AVAILABLE. BY THE FIRST UNION HE WAS THE FATHER OF FIVE CHILDREN, TWO OF WHOM DIED IN INFANCY. THE THREE SURVIVING ARE 0RA NANCE OF CROPSEY, CHARLES AND CLAUDE NANCE BOTH OF DANVILLE. HE WAS AGAIN UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS OTSTOTT MAY 22.1884. TO THIS UNION NINE CHILDREN WERE BORN, SIX OF WHOM SURVIVE. MR.NANCE WAS A MEMBER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH OF THIS CITY FOR MANY YEARS AND WAS A QUIET,UNASSUMING CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN. HE WAS EVER FAITHFULL TO HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. THE FAMILY RESIDED IN THIS CITY MANY YEARS. SEVERAL YEARS AGO MR. NANCE SUFFERED A SEVERE ILLNESS FROM WHICH HE NEVER RECOVERED.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MRS.MAGGIE NANCE OF THIS CITY; TWO SONS, GEORGE OF CANTRALL AND SOLOMON OF DUQUOIN; FOUR DAUGHTERS,MRS.
ANNIE SCOWN OF ST.LOUIS, MRS.ALICE DENNING OF SPRINGFIELD, MRS. CHLOE STEREN OF ELYRIA?, OHIO AND MRS. MAYE AYLWARD OF CANTRALL. THE REMAINS WERE BROUGHT TO THIS CITY AND THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE METHODIST CHURCH MONDAY AFTERNOON. INTERMENT IN THE HALL CEMETERY.
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NOTE: ACCORDING TO SOLOMON'S GRANDDAUGHTER,GRACE LEONORA (NANCE) RUNYON, HE READ THE BIBLE COMPLETELY THRU, 13 TIMES.
SOURCE: ORIGINAL OBIT IN THE POSSESSION OF GRACE RUNYON, NEWSPAPER UNKNOWN
OBITUARY OF ORA NANCE
ORRIE NANCE, THE SON OF SOLOMON AND MARTISHA (WILLIAMS) NANCE, WAS BORN ON A FARM IN BOONE CO.,INDIANA, SEPTEMBER 21,1876, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HIS HOME IN CROPSEY THE MORNING OF AUGUST 31,1930. HE WAS 53 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 22 DAYS OF AGE. HE HAD BEEN AFFLICTED FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS BUT A WEEK BEFORE HIS PASSING HE WAS COMPELLED TO TAKE TO HIS BED, GRADUALLY GROWING WORSE.
WHEN A SMALL BOY HIS FAMILY MOVED TO CATLIN, A LITTLE LATER GOING TO THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE. WHEN 19 YEARS OLD HE CAME TO CROPSEY. HERE HE MET MISS MABEL POPEJOY, TO WHOM HE WAS MARRIED ON JANUARY 8, 1905. FROM THAT TIME ON, EXCEPTING TWO YEARS IN MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., CROPSEY HAD BEEN THEIR HOME.
THE MOTHER AND WIFE IS JOINED IN HER SORROW BY SEVEN CHILDREN;RAYMOND, VIRGIL, FLOYD AND GRACE OF PONTIAC, AND BETHEL, EUGENE AND VELVA, AT HOME, AND ONE GRANDSON, ROBERT, OF PONTIAC.BESIDE THESE ARE TWO BROTHERS, PEARL NANCE, OF FAIRMONT, AND CLAUDE NANCE, OF DANVILLE, AND HALF-SISTERS, MRS. CHLOE STIEREN, OF MICHIGAN, MRS. ALICE DENNING, OF SPRINGFIELD, MRS. AYLWARD, OF IOWA, AND TWO HALF-BROTHERS, GEORGE, OF CANTRALL, AND SOLOMON, OF CHICAGO, SEVERAL NIECES AND A NEPHEW IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS.
IN 1919, MR. NANCE UNITED WITH THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN CROPSEY. HE WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE LODGE OF LOYAL AMERICANS OF THE REPUBLIC. SOBER, HONEST, INDUSTRIOUS, COURAGEOUS IN SPITE OF HIS AFFLICTIONS, HE GAINED THE ADMIRATION AND GOOD WILL OF ALL. FOR TWO YEARS PREVIOUS TO THE WORLD WAR HE WAS SUCCESSFUL IN LOCAL POLITICS, BEING TAX COLLECTOR DURING THAT TIME.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE LATE RESIDENCE AND IN THE CROPSEY CHURCH ON TUESDAY MORNING AT TEN O'CLOCK, IN CHARGE OF THE PASTOR, THE REV.D.K.SAILOR. THE CROPSEY MALE QUARTETTE ASSISTED WITH THE SERVICE IN COMFORTING SONGS. BODY BEARERS, PAUL LANGE, RALPH MILLS, FRANK SCHADE, GRANT COX, PHIL DECKER, S.E.THOMAS. INTERMENT WAS IN CROPSEY CEMETERY.
SOURCE: THE ORIGINAL OBIT IN THE POSSESSION OF GRACE RUNYON.
NOTE: ORA'S DAUGHTER GRACE SAYS THE DURING HIS LAST DAYS OF ILLNESS, ORA LAY IN HIS BED , HIS HANDS CONSTANTLY MOVING, PREFORMING THE MOTIONS OF HIS OCCUPATION.
FOR THE STORY OF LAWRENCE EUGENE NANCE, AND THE WORDS OF A SONG WHICH HE WROTE, GO TO LAWRENCE EUGENE NANCE UNDER "FAMILY STORIES FROM THE PAST". CLICK HERE:
