Wall Family Tree: Nancy (?) Wall

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Birth Information

Nancy Wall's tombstone lists her birtdate as 31 August 1806. Census records from 1850 and 1860 indicate she was born in South Carolina. I have not been able to find evidence of Nancy's maiden name, but family history claims she was the daughter of Pleasant Tisdale, who moved from South Carolina to Perry County, MS, in ??. I have not been able to find proof of this, but the name Pleasant does appear in the Wall family tree and this would fit with Nancy's birthplace in the census records; however, another of this Tisdale branch supposedly married Nancy's son, Micajah, so the name Pleasant may have entered that way.

Residence

Presumably, it is Nancy who appears with John and their children in Perry County in the 1830 census and in Newton County, MS, in the 1840 census. Nancy appears with her husband in the Newton County census records until her death in 1866.

Spouse/Children

I have not found a marriage record for Nancy and her husband, John Wall. They likely married in Perry County, since they appear together there in the 1830 census and tax records clearly indicate John lived there as early as 1822.

John and Nancy had 12 children, who are identified in John's will probated in Newton County in 1878; the children of their son, Micajah C. Wall, are listed there as well because Micajah was to serve as Executor of the will but he predeceased his father. (A transcript of John's will is given in the miscellaneous section of the Wall page.) All of the children of John and Nancy are given by name in at least one of the censuses, with the exception of the oldest children (Jayne, Mary, Biddy, and Micajah), who had already left home by the 1850 census. Analysis of the MS 1840 census suggests that Mary, Jayne, and Biddy were between the ages of 10 and 15 when the census was taken.

Census Records

MS 1830

Perry County
head of household: John Wall

MS 1840

p. 143, Newton County
head of household: John Wall

MS 1845 State Census

MS Genealogy Exchange v. 26, Spring, 1980
L. 24 (household 137, Newton County
Head of Household: John Wall

The houshold contained five males and four females. The males are probably: John, Micajah, John Jr., Thomas, and Zachariah. Peter, the only other son left, wasn't born yet. The females are probably: Nancy, Rachel, Eliza, and one other. The possibilities for the 4th woman are Elizabeth, Jayne, and Mary. Marriage records indicate Elizabeth was already married by 1845 and a posting in MS Gen. Exch. lists Mary's marriage as Feb. 1843. Therefore, the other female is most likely Jayne.

MS 1850

p. ?, Line 24 (household 137) Newton County
head of household: John Wall

MS 1860

p. 21 (27?), L 29 (family 193) Newton County
head of household: John Walls

*NOTE: Every one seems to be 2 years younger than they should be based on the 1850 census. The 1850 census is probably the correct one; if you went by the ages given in 1860, Margaret shouldn't have appeared on the 1850 census but she did.

MS 1870

p. 54 (412), Line 1 (family 1), Newton County
head of household: John Wall

NOTE: Nancy is missing from this census.

Death/Burial

Nancy Wall's tombstone lists her date of death as 25 September 1866. She is buried next to her husband in an above-ground stone coffin in Old Spring Hill Methodist Church Cemetery in Newton County, MS. This cemetery was abandoned a long time ago and consists of only a handful of graves in the woods. A book of Newton County cemeteries, published in 1995, lists the dates. I visited the cemetery in 2000 and vandals had smashed both stones, obliterating the birth and death dates.

References

Smith, Bonnie Addy, Jackson Eliot Smith, and Robert Ervin Smith, Newton County Mississippi: A Cemetery Census 1782-1995. 1997, Decatur: EBRS Publishing Company.
This book was privately published and is available from the authors at one of the following addresses:
18970 Highway 14 North
Decatur, MS 39327
phone: (601) 635-2149 		100 Woodville Drive
Natchez, MS 39120
phone: (601) 442-3084 		P.O. Box 529
Washington, MS 39190
It is part of the collections of the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, IN and Clayton Genealogy Library in Houston, TX.*



Ben & Jean Strickland, Washington County, Mississippi Territory. 1803-1816 Tax Rolls. 1980, reprinted 1987, Moss Point: Ben Strickland
It is part of the collection of Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, IN.*





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