Wade & Webb Family History

Nancy Sims1802–1880

Georgia · Tallapoosa · Shelby

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Sources
  4. Notes

Birth

  1. 1802 Georgia

Marriages

  1. 4 Jul 1850 John N Owens, at Tallapoosa, Alabama 2
  2. 4 Jul 1850 John N Owens, at Tallapoosa Co., AL 2
  3. 8 Jul 1850 John N Owens, at Tallapoosa,Alabama 2
  4. 8 Jul 1850 John N Owens, at Tallapoosa, Alabama 2
  5. Date unknown John N Owens, at Tallapoosa, Alabama

Death and burial

  1. 1880 Burial: Shelby, Alabama
  2. 21 Jun 1880 Death: Shelby, Alabama 6

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse, 4 Jul 1850
John N Owens 1783–1859

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Nancy Sims
  2. Wife of John N Owens
  3. Clarissa Ann Mitchell Owens, daughter
  4. Clarrissa Jane Carlisle, daughter
  5. James Pleasant Webb, son
  6. Hilda Webb, daughter
  7. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Wife of 3rd great-grandfather of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Nancy, whom the FamilySearch tree names Nancy Sims, was born in Georgia in 1802, according to the tree, which cites no record for her birth or her maiden name.1 In July 1850 she married John N. Owen, John N. Owens, in Tallapoosa County, Alabama; the marriage records call her Nancy Orr, and the county indexes carry the marriage under both 4 July and 8 July 1850.2 Inference The name Orr in the marriage records suggests that she was then a widow, so that Sims may be her maiden name and Orr a first husband's, but no record in hand states either.2 Her husband, about nineteen years older than she by the tree's dates, died at Daviston, Tallapoosa County, in 1859.3 The federal census of 1860 listed her as Nancy Owen in the Western Division, Beat 12, of Tallapoosa County.4 By 1880 she was living in Shelby County, Alabama, where the census listed Nancy Owens in the household of J. P. Ragsdale.5 She died in Shelby County on 21 June 1880 and was buried there, according to the tree, which gives no source for either event.6

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to Nancy Sims.

  1. 04 Jul 1850<Unknown>, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  2. 1850Nancy Orr, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  3. 08 Jul 1850Nancy Orr, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  4. 08 Jul 1850Nancy Orr, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  5. 04 Jul 1850Nancy Orr, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  6. 8 July 1850Nancy Orr, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  7. 1860Nancy Owen, "United States, Census, 1860"
  8. 1880Nancy Owens, "United States, Census, 1880"
  9. Nancy Orr, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  10. 04 Jul 1850Entry for John N Owen and Nancy Orr, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  11. 08 Jul 1850Nancy Orr, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  12. Nancy Orr, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile PH9H-NJW: birth 1802, Georgia, no source attached back to the text
  2. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, John N Owen and Nancy Orr, 04 Jul 1850. Record: John N Owen and Nancy Orr, 04 Jul 1850 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, John N Owen and Nancy Orr, 08 Jul 1850. Record: John N Owen and Nancy Orr, 08 Jul 1850 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, Nancy Orr in entry for John N. Owen, 8 July 1850. Record: Nancy Orr in entry for John N. Owen, 8 July 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile PH9H-NJW: marriage 4 Jul 1850 and 8 Jul 1850, Tallapoosa, Alabama back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KGS4-27Y (their page): birth about 1783; first wife Elizabeth; death 1859, Daviston, Tallapoosa back to the text
  4. "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Nancy Owen, 1860. Record: Nancy Owen, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile PH9H-NJW: residence 1860, Western Division Beat 12, Tallapoosa back to the text
  5. "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Nancy Owens in entry for J. P. Ragsdale, 1880. Record: Nancy Owens in entry for J. P. Ragsdale, 1880 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile PH9H-NJW: residence 1880, Shelby, Alabama back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile PH9H-NJW: death 21 Jun 1880, Shelby, Alabama; burial 1880, Shelby, no source attached back to the text