ABBETT, Nancy A. (Ashley)

Date of birth:  About 1825 – Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
Date of death: 22 Jan 1898 – Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 28, 1898,
Volume XXXVIII Number 29, page 1 column 6

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Death of Mrs. Abbott.[sic]

Mrs. Nancy Abbott [sic], age 73 years, died Saturday evening at Indian­apolis, while visiting relatives. The re­mains were brought here Sunday and taken to her residence on Wayne Street. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 1:30, conducted by Rev. C. R. Hudson.

Deceased was born March 25, 1825 at Knoxville, Tenn., and came with her parents in 1827 to this county, where she had ever since resided [sic]. She leaves three children, Mrs. Sarah May [sic Howard] of Chicago, Wm. Abbott [sic], of Nebraska, and Mrs. Florence Dennis of Chicago.

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Notes: Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that James M. Abbott [sic] married Nancy A. Ashley on 22 Apr 1847 in Johnson County.

The 1850 US Federal Census for Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana records twenty-eight-year-old, Kentucky-born tinner James Abbett, his twenty-eight-year-old, Tennessee-born wife Nancy A. Abbett, their one-year-old daughter Sarah Abbett and Nancy’s brother, eight-year-old, Indiana-born Joseph Ashley.

The 1860 US Federal Census for Maryville, Nodaway County, Missouri records thirty-six-year-old, Kentucky-born tinner James Abbett, his thirty-four-year-old, Tennessee-born wife Nancy A. Abbett (who is a painter), and their three children, ten-year-old, Indiana-born Sarah, eight-year-old, Indiana-born William, and one-year-old, Missouri-born Florence Abbett.

The 1870 US Federal Census for Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana records forty-three-year-old, Kentucky-born tinner James Abbett, his forty-three-year-old, Tennessee-born wife Nancy A. Abbett and their children, twenty-year-old, Indiana-born Sarah [Abbett] Howard, eighteen-year-old, Indiana-born William A. Abbett, and eleven-year-old, Missouri-born Florence Abbett.

The Marion County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book H-7, page 26, records that Nancy Abbett, a seventy-three-year-old white female, died 22 Jan 1898 in Indianapolis.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson