Nancy Cahoon

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<p>Notes</p><p>An interesting note about Nancy Ellis:</p>When I (Paul Hutchins) first started researching the Cashes back in the early '70's, I would spend time at the library and court house, then bring my 'finds' home and have my mother (Janice Cash Hutchins) look over the names and see if she remembered any name that might be connected to our branch of Cashes. When I came across Nancy Ellis marrying into the Cash family, I made a note of that name simply because I went to school with a Nancy Ellis and thought that was interesting. Well, when I showed that find to my mother, she said, "See what you can find out about her," then she shared the following story with me. She said that there was this story that had been passed down in the family about a gr-aunt Nancy who was a witch. Her husband was a mariner and because of his love for the sea, would often be gone for long periods at a time. As the story goes, she soon got tired of this and warned him not to go out anymore or else something would happen to him. He did continue and, so the story goes, at the same time she was brewing up something on the stove, he jumped ship at sea, at the same time the brew boiled over. This story was confirmed by my mother's sister Betty Cash Francis. She remembered this Nancy Ellis' daughter also being known as an odd person who often cooked up home 'brews' and grew her own herbs and such. Well, I went back to the library to find out more information and I did find that James Cash, Nancy's husband, was a mariner. And that his death was listed as "at sea." And, even more interesting was another fact that I found: 7 months after his death Nancy remarried - to a Cahoon, who ended up being on my grandmother's (Maydalene Cahoon Cash) side of the family!

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Age: 45-46