{"id":907,"date":"2015-09-20T19:42:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=907"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:00","slug":"thomas-nance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/thomas-nance\/","title":{"rendered":"NANCE, Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THOMAS NANCE <\/strong>is a son of <strong>Clements Nance,<\/strong> of Bedford County, Tenn., who was born in 1810 and spent his boyhood on a farm.\u00a0 He received a practical education and wedded <strong>Mary Tune<\/strong>, daughter of <strong>William Tune<\/strong>, of Virginia, and to them were born <strong>William T., Thomas, Mary, Reuben and Clement.<\/strong>\u00a0 Three of the children are now living.\u00a0 In 1826 <strong>Mr. Nance<\/strong> immigrated to Tennessee, locating near Shelbyville, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits.\u00a0 In 1833 <strong>Mr. Nance<\/strong> went to Missouri and died in Ray County in 1841.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Nance<\/strong>, our subject, was born October 17, 1837, in Missouri.\u00a0 He came to Tennessee when he was but seven years of age, and his early days were spent in laboring on a farm and in attending the common schools of his neighborhood.\u00a0 He began blacksmithing and followed that occupation for about twenty years.\u00a0 In 1872 he moved to where he now resides.\u00a0 December 14, 1859, he wedded <strong>Miss Sarah B. Coates,<\/strong> daughter of <strong>P. H. Coates,<\/strong> and six children have been born to their union: <strong>Thomas H., James E., Julia E., Carrie E., William G. and Martha E.,<\/strong> all of whom are living.\u00a0 In 1883 <strong>Mr. Nance<\/strong> was elected magistrate of his district and is filling the duties of that office at the present time.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Nance<\/strong> is a Mason, and he and <strong>Mrs. Nance<\/strong> are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THOMAS NANCE is a son of Clements Nance, of Bedford County, Tenn., who was born in 1810 and spent his boyhood on a farm.\u00a0 He received a practical education and wedded Mary Tune, daughter of William Tune, of Virginia, and to them were born William T., Thomas, Mary, Reuben and Clement.\u00a0 Three of the children &#8230; <a title=\"NANCE, Thomas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/thomas-nance\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NANCE, Thomas\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2946,2945,2950,2944,2938,2948,2949,2952,2942,2943,2937,2947,2951,2941,2939,2940],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-coates-p-h","tag-coates-sarah-b","tag-nance-carrie-e","tag-nance-clement","tag-nance-clements","tag-nance-james-e","tag-nance-julia-e","tag-nance-martha","tag-nance-mary","tag-nance-reuben","tag-nance-thomas","tag-nance-thomas-h","tag-nance-william-g","tag-nance-william-t","tag-tune-mary","tag-tune-william"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}