- Elizabeth Vance, Mother of Nancy Vance Hatfield and "Bad" Jim Vance
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Elizabeth Vance Notes are from: http://www.coalexchange.com/smith/mcdowella/pafg536.htm#15943
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Elizabeth Vance was born in 1794. [Parents--Abner Vance Sr was born about 1763 in NC. He died on 16 Jul 1819 in Abingdon, Russell Co,VA. He married Susannah Howard in 1779 in Russell Co,VA. Susannah Howard was born in 1767 in Russell Co,VA. She died after 1850 in Logan Co,WV. ]
[Notes--see below]
She had the following children:
Fi Nancy Vance was born on 2 May 1813. She died after 1880.
Notes:
Elizabeth Vance
1. "Reference Book of Wyoming County History", Mary K. Bowman, page 399.
James Brown married Millie Vance, daughter of Abner Vance, Sr.
Abner Vance, Sr. married in Russell Co, VA and settled on the Tug River near the present Logan Wyoming Co line. His children were: James, John, Richard,
Abner, Jr, Millie, Bettie and
three other daughters who married
(______) Perry,
Francis Browning, and
John McCloud.
Abner, Sr was hanged for killing (_______) Horton.
2. "Timothy Vance's Hompage", internet.
Elizabeth Vance, daughter of Abner and Susannah Howard Vance,"... fell in
love with a man that did not have good intentions toward her. ...he ruined her reputation. Abner and Susannah tried to get the man to marry Elizabeth, but he refused. After a brief argument, Abner shot the man and killed him. He supposedly hid out in Logan Co, WV before coming back to Russell Co and turning himself in."
Elizabeth never married but had several children; one was "Bad" Jim Vance and another was Nancy Vance who married Ephriam Hatfield, the parents of "Devil Anse" Hatfield.
dsliszewskiadded this on 24 Nov 2012
fiddlestix2007originally submitted this to Riffe Family Tree on 8 May 2011
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| Children |
| | 1. Brown, Rachel, b. 1835, Huff Creek, Wyoming, West Virginia, USA  [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 2. Brown, Rebecca, b. 1816, Tazewell County, Virginia, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 3. Brown, Thomas, b. 13 Sep 1831, Huff Creek, Wyoming, West Virginia, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 4. Brown, Elisha, b. 1816, Tazewell County, Virginia, USA d. 22 Oct 1854, Logan County, West Virginia, USA (Age 38 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 5. Brown, Evan, b. 1834, Huff Creek, Wyoming, West Virginia, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 6. Brown, Virginia, b. Apr 1825, Huff Creek, Wyoming, West Virginia, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 7. Brown, Isaac, b. 1824, Huff Creek, Wyoming, West Virginia, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 8. Brown, James Harley, b. Abt 1822, Huff Creek, Wyoming, West Virginia, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 9. Brown, William Patterson, b. 1824, Huff Creek, Wyoming, West Virginia, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 10. Brown, Mathias, b. 1831, Huff Creek, Wyoming, West Virginia, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 11. Brown, John, b. 1829, Huff Creek, Wyoming, West Virginia, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 12. Brown, Nancy, b. 1832 [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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