My third great-aunt, Nancy Thompson, was the next to last child (that I have recorded) born to Moses and Rachel Foard Thompson.
Nancy was born in about 1819 in Tennessee, probably in Bedford County. Between 1846 to 1840, her family came to Illinois. It appears that Nancy married John Omsby in about 1838 (marriage records have not been found) in either Tennessee or Illinois.
Nancy and John had ten known children. The first was a son born about 1839. I don't know any more about him. Three more sons followed, all born in Illinois. They had a daughter in 1848, then three more sons, then two more daughters. The last child (Susan) was born in 1858. Sadly, the two youngest daughters died in infancy. One son died in 1857 at the age of seven. I have not been able to find any records for another son, so he may have died early also.
John Omsby, Nancy's husband, died in November of 1858. Nancy soon followed him, dying in February of 1859. When they died, they left five living children, ages five to seventeen.
Nancy was buried in Wesley Cemetery in Wendelin, Clay County, Illinois.
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