I thought someone might be interested in this family of Samuel Dancer and Nancy Barnes. -----Original Message----- From: BERTIE B DANCER <BDANCER@prodigy.net> To: bwilson <bwilson@avsia.com> Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 2:52 PM Subject: Re: Dancer/Barnes >Bobbie, > >Samuel Dancer b 1798 probably in Smith Co, TN and Nancy Barnes b 1800 SC Had >the following children: > >Henry Dancer b 1824 probably in Stewart Co d abt 1899 McNairy Co m Martha >Ann Cook b 19 Aug 1824 in Wayne Co, TN, no death date for her. > >James F. Dancer b 1826 TN, no death date, m 29 Sep 1847 Nancy Laurence Welch >b 14 Sep 1827 TN, no death date for her. > >Jonas Franklin Dancer b 24 March 1827 TN d 10 Oct 1911 at Ramer, McNairy Co, >TN m (1) 27 Sep 1849 Mary Ann Higginbottom (2) 22 Jan 1899 Elizabeth Francis >Jones Jonas was a Baptist preacher and farmer. > >Mary Jane Dancer b 4 Feb 1829 McNairy Co, TN d 30 Oct 1896 in Hardin Co, TN >buried at Saltillo in Hardin Co. She m 14 May 1854 in Tishomingo Co, MS >Dempsey F. Yow b 11 June 1831 in Moore Co, NC d 13 June 1907 in Marshall Co, >OK. Mary Jane died in a buggy accident or from injuries received in the >accident when she was on the way to deliver a baby. She was a midwife or >legend says "country doctor." > >Joseph? Dancer b 1831 appears on the 1850 census and we have never located >him again. He would have been the right age to serve in the CW but we have >located no record of him serving in the war. > >Samuel Dennis (Sam) Dancer b Oct 1836 d bef 1910 Kaufman Co, TX burial at >Terrell in Kaufman Co. Sam m (1) 26 March 1857 Tishomingo Co,MS to Susan >Whitaker b 1837 d bef 1876 (2) 1875 [MS/TN? marriage record not located] >Nancy Jane Wilds b 1852 TN d 1881 McNairy Co (3) 17 Dec 1885 McNairy Co >Louiza Fields and moved immediately to Texas. > >Sarah A. Dancer b 1838 Tishomingo Co, MS [no death date] m 11 Nov 1866 >McNairy Co to William J. Sipes [no further information] > >William M. Dancer b 1840 Tishomingo Co, MS d 1 Jan 1862 at Camp Fisher, VA >of pneumonia. Served in Company A, 2nd Mississippi Regiment, enlistment at >Iuka. > >Stephen Pinkney Dancer (Steve or Pink) b 7 Jul 1843 rural Henry Co, TN [now >Benton Co] d 1 Sep 1917 Boswell, Choctaw Co, OK m 1 Jan 1865 in Old >Tishomingo Co, MS to Keziah (Kizzie) Caroline Walker [dau of Allen Wood >Walker and Bethany Emaline Howard] b 16 Jun 1846 Itawamba, MS d 30 Apr 1929 >Boswell, OK. Stephen Pink and Kizzie Caroline are both buried at Garretts >Bluff, Lamar Co, TX. S. P. was a private in Company A, 2nd Miss Reg of Conf >States Volunteers, enlistment at Iuka, wounded at the Battle of Gaines Farm. >Received a Confederate pension from OK. Kizzie Caroline received a widow's >pension after his death. > >This is probably more than you wanted to know about this family. Stephen >Pinkney Dancer is my husband Mayo's great grandfather. > >Bertie > >