Nancy DUNLEVY

  General Notes:

About 1824 or 1825 Mary and Nancy Dunlevy were invited to visit Mrs. Judge Sherman, mother of Hon. John Sherman, at Lancaster, Ohio, near which place, namely, on the Pickaway Plains, they owned a section of rich land they inherited from their father. While looking over this tract, Nancy Dunlevy became acquainted with Thomas Jefferson Anderson, son of a neighboring farmer, they were soon deeply interested in each other and were joined in wedlock August 7, 1825, by Rev. James Gilruth. They settled in Marion, Ohio, the same year. The names of their children and grandchildren and of the Anderson family in America, will be found in another place in this book. Nancy Dunlevy Anderson, one of the most brilliant women that ever lived in Marion County, died May 17, 1870. Her husband, who was twenty-one years Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Marion County, died of paralysis January 25, 1871. Both lie in the Marion cemetery.

Dunlevy Anderson, wife of Thomas J. Anderson, died May 77th. 1870, at 4 o'clock p. m., Tuesday, aged 65 years, 4. months and 5 days, at her home in Marion, Ohio. Sermon and services by Rev. L. A. Belt, pastor of the M. E. Church in Marion, Ohio.

Nancy married Thomas Jefferson ANDERSON, son of Capt. James ANDERSON and Priscilla HOUSE, on 7 Aug 1825 in Fairfield, Ohio, United States. (Thomas Jefferson ANDERSON was born on 2 Apr 1801 in Virginia, USA, died on 25 Jan 1871 in Cass Co., Missouri and was buried in Marion Cem., Marion, Ohio.)