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#1. Jacob Vance and his wife Sarah were born in {Belfast,}Ireland and migrated to North Carolina USA before 1779. We find their first child [one of 5 children] #2. William born in North Carolina in 1779 andmarried Sarah Hudson about 1820 in Tennessee. They were the parents of 12 children, 9 boys and 3 girls. We descended through their son and William’s namesake #3. William Jr. Vance born 1827 in Tennessee. In 1832 a child was born to William and Sarah in Alabama and in 1842 a child was born in Tennessee and in 1850 we find the whole family in Lawrence County, {now Sharp County}, Arkansas. William Sr. lived long enough to see [at least] 5 of his sons serve their cause in the Civil War and four of them gave the ultimate sacrifice, their lives. G-g grandfather William and John Lee were killed in action and George W. and Gainsboro Van Buren died in service. Great great grandfather William Vance Jr. married Nancy E.
Norman November 25, 1851 at Evening Shade, Lawrence {now Sharp}
County, Arkansas. They had 8 children and we are descended through
the 2nd oldest James Madison Vance. William was killed October
15, 1864 in a Civil War Battle near the Big Blue River in Missouri.
Nancy did not remarry and died at Magness, Independence County,
Arkansas August 3, 1905.
The Gay family can be traced from North Carolina , Tennessee and to Sharp County, Arkansas. Elisa Gay was born about 1781 in North Carolina and married Francis “Franky” Bowden from Franklin County, North Carolina, They had children in South Carolia, Henry County, Tennessee and Weakley County, Tennessee before moving to Lawrence {Sharp} County, Arkansas. Their son Alfred married Elizabeth Lovelace 1836 and had 11 children. Alfred and Elizabeth’s 9th child Mariah Catherine “Kitty” Gay married James Madison Vance, who we talked about in the first family of this article.
The Norman family can be traced from North Carolina, Tennessee and then to Sharp County, Arkansas. Great-great-great grandfather, John Norman was born 1799 in North Carolina and married Nancy Neal. They had at least 4 children, three born in Tennessee and one in Alabama before moving to Evening Shade, Lawrence{ Sharp }County, Arkansas. The 1850 Lawrence {Sharp} Co, Census shows John as a widower and it appears Nancy died before 1850. I do not know if she died in Alabama where their last child was born or after they moved to Arkansas.
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