Nancy (Pettit)

Female 1779 - 1845  (~ 66 years)


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  • Name Nancy (Pettit) 
    Birth ~ 1779  [1, 2
    Gender Female 
    Death ~ 1845  (Cincinnatti, Washington County, Arkansas) Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Burial Y  [2
    • No gravesite has been found for James or Nancy Hembree.
    Person ID I45319  The Hennessee Family
    Last Modified 13 Feb 2016 

    Family James N. Hembree,   b. 0___ 1774, Spartanburg, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1850-1851, Cincinnatti, Washington County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 77 years) 
    Marriage ~ 1799  [1, 2, 3
    Children 
     1. Mourning Hembree,   b. 20 Sep 1800, Spartanburg, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Apr 1876, White County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    Family ID F16524  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsDeath - ~ 1845 - (Cincinnatti, Washington County, Arkansas) Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • There is little known about Nancy. Her last name is known as "Pettit" but no one has been able to link her to this name.

      She was born about 1779 and married James N. Hembree the son of Joel Hembree & Hannah Pettit about 1799 . James Hembree is first shown on a 1800 census in Spartanburg, South Carolina with a wife and one child.

      They migrated to central Tennessee by 1807 then to Missouri c. 1838, finally to Arkansas by 1842.

      Nancy died sometime before 1850, her husband James is found on a 1850 Washington County Arkansas census without her and his last will & testament filed in Washington Arkansas does not mention her..James son Dr. Isaac Newton Hembree was named administer.

      It is not clear if the place of Nancy's death was in Dade County, Missouri or Washington County, Arkansas. There is no source that James body was moved to Yamhill Oregon for a Masionic burial. No gravesite has been found for James or Nancy Hembree.

      There children spread to Oregon, Washington, Texas, Missouri & Tennessee by 1860.

      The children of James N. & Nancy are as;

      1. Mourning Hembree b. 20 Sept 1800 Spartenburg S.C. m. Daniel Clark d. 14 April 1876 Warren Co. Tennessee

      2. Rosannah Hembree b. 15 Nov 1802 Spartenburg S.C. m. Larkin Baker d. before 1850 Denton Texas

      3. Joel Jordan Hembree b. 7 Dec 1804 Spartenburg S.C. m. Sarah Payne d. 1868 Yamhill Co. Oregon

      4. Dorinda Hembree b. 9 Feb 1807 Tennessee m. Sam Chesser d. aft. 1850 Missouri

      5. James Jasper Hembree b. 10 April 1809 White Co. Tennessee m. Malinda Cole d. 1842/43 Dade Co Missouri

      6. Matilda Hembree b. 11 March 1811 White Co. Tennessee m. Rev. Jacob Lindley d. 1841 Missouri

      7. Absalom J. Hembree b. 14 Dec 1813 White Co. Tennessee m. Nancy Dodson d. 1856 Yakima Co. Oregon

      8. Sarah Elizabeth Hembree b. 10 May 1816 White Co Tennessee m. John Barton Pennington d. 1851 Yakima Co. Washington

      9. Cynthia London Hembree b. 19 Sept 1818 White Co Tennessee m. William Roark d. 1880 Denton Texas

      10. Hugh Lawson Hembree b. 19 Sept 1820 Warren Co Tennessee m. Annette Bender d. 1898 Dade County Missouri

      11. Dr. Isaac Newton Hembree b. 29 April 1823 Warren Co. Tennessee m. 1) Elizabeth West 2) Martha West d. 1866 Slidell, Wise, Texas [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S9054] "James N. Hembree (1774-1850", biography, by Lawrence Petrisky, July 25, 2007, http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/t.

    2. [S9061] "Nancy Pettit Hembree" profile, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=106446964, retrieved February 13,.

    3. [S9057] "Mourning Hembree Clark (1800-1876)" biography, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15096515, retrieve.