Anna Hancock

Nancy Malinda Corn

• Birth: 1763 - Albermarle Co., VA
• Death: French Lick, Orange, Indiana, USA
• Parents: Matthew Corn, Mollie E. Corn (born Noel)
• Siblings: Edward E. Corn, George Corn, John Peter Corn, Jesse Corn, Samuel Corn, John Corn

Settled in French Broad River area, Suger Loaf Mountain

1) Benjamin Hancock born ca 1759 Died 1817 ( on the way to his son's house with the younger children) married Anna Corn around 1780 Moved with his father and family from Fluvanna County between 1777 and 1790

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/HANCOCK/1997-07/08685...

1. Find A Grave Memorial# 23603715

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Notes

What meager info we have on Nancy is from census records and the "Memoirs of the Civil War" by Joseph Marion Bailey. He writes that his great grandfather William Bailey, Sr. came to Virginia from England but that his grandfather, also named William, had no memory of either his father or mother, both dying before he could remember. The 1764 William is said to have served in the Revolutionary War, and after the close of the War married Miss Nancy Corn.

Joseph says William and Nancy raised a family of seven children, two boys and five girls and that two of the girls died in a fever epidemic of some kind, and left Nancy, John, Lewis, Adelia (married William Baker) and Militia. An 80 year old 'Emily' Bailey, born in Viginia, is living with Adelia Bailey Baker in 1850, which must be her mother. William and James Bailey are next door.

In 1819 William and Nancy decided to go West to Missouri but soon returned back East, at least as far as the recently opened area called the Hiwassee Purchase, which later would be McMinn and Polk County, Tennessee.

Joseph writes that his grandfather William died here in Polk County in 1848, and his wife, Nancy, died about 1856. Joseph does not say where they are buried, but they were living in Old District 1, and the oldest, closest, cemetery with family and neighbors is Baker's Chapel. Apparently William and Nancy are in one of the many (60) graves marked only with only fieldstones or unmarked here.

Links

• http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/21078060/person/18014229808
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Aug 1 2018, 21:45:47 UTC

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• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Dec 17 2023, 18:58:33 UTC