Nancy Anne Sumner

Notes:

Nancy Jonckheere says here that they were married 24 Oct 1825.

Nancy married Nicholas White on 13 Oct 1825 in Whitley County, Kentucky. Nicholas (son of John White and Mary Shelton) was born on 15 May 1802 in Kentucky; died on 29 Jun 1876 in Redbird, Whitley, Kentucky; was buried in Red Bird Cemetery, Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Holden Wade White was born on 3 May 1826 in Whitley County, Kentucky; died on 22 Oct 1872 in Whitley County, Kentucky; was buried in Pleasant Hill Baptist Cemetery, Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky.
2. Naomi Nancy Oma White was born on 25 Jul 1827 in Whitley City, McCreary, Kentucky; died on 16 Feb 1907 in Whitley County, Kentucky; was buried in Red Bird Cemetery, Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky.
3. John White was born on 4 Mar 1830 in Whitley County, Kentucky; died on 28 Aug 1896 in Whitley County, Kentucky; was buried in Red Bird Cemetery, Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky.
4. Mark White was born on 27 Nov 1832 in Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky; died on 30 Jun 1893 in Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky; was buried in Red Bird Cemetery, Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky.
5. Melvina Nancy White was born on 9 Aug 1835 in Whitley City, McCreary, Kentucky; died on 18 Nov 1898 in Whitley County, Kentucky; was buried in Concord Cemetery, Whitley, Kentucky.
6. Dempsey C. White was born in 1839 in Whitley County, Kentucky; died on 6 Apr 1862 in Shiloh, Hardin, Tennessee; was buried in Shiloh National Cemetery, Shiloh, Hardin, Tennessee.
7. Nicholas White was born about 1840 in Whitley County, Kentucky.
8. Lucinda White was born about 1842 in Whitley County, Kentucky.
9. James Ervin White was born on 4 Jul 1843 in Whitley City, McCreary, Kentucky; died on 9 Dec 1927 in Goldbug, Whitley, Kentucky; was buried in Ryan Cemetery, Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky.
10. Jasper Newton "Newt" White was born in Jun 1848 in Whitley County, Kentucky; died in 1909 in Whitley County, Kentucky.

James married Mourning Blanshard after 3 Apr 1784 in Gates County, North Carolina. Mourning was born in Mar 1768 in North Carolina; died in Sep 1834 in Whitley County, Kentucky; was buried in Red Bird Cemetery, Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to P. Bryant, current maintainer of her Find a Grave page, she has been extensively confused with the Mahala Smith (1799-1882) who married Joseph Chestnutt Sumner (1793-1880). There appears to be no evidence that our Mourning (Blanshard) Sumner was called "Mahala" in her lifetime, despite the presence of that given name on her modern gravestone at Red Bird.

Bryant goes on to say that the two extant contemporary records of Mourning (Blanshard) Sumner are her Gates County marriage contract and the 1790 census, neither of which call her Mahala. The marriage contract does show her birth surname as Blanshard and calls her "of Hertford County." It also specifies that once married, she will continue to have full possession of the land and slaves that were hers before marriage. Witnesses were Starkey Sharp, Walter McFarlane, and Joseph Witherington. 3 Apr 1784.

(An Aaron Blanchard of Chowan County, North Carolina made his will on 15 Jul 1772, naming daughters Millicent, Mary, and Esther, wife Rachel, and "trusty friend" James Sumner, the latter of whom was also named an executor, leading many people, including us, to the hasty conclusion that Aaron was her father. But the James Sumner who married Mourning Blanshard would have been a young child at the time of Aaron Blanchard's will.)

Assertions that she was of Cherokee heritage are, to the best of our knowledge, baseless.