Nancy Ann Farmer

Nancy Ann Farmer

• Father: Calloway Farmer b. November 1812, d. 9 June 1901
• Mother: Malinda Pratt b. circa 1820, d. between 1870 and 1880

• Nancy Ann Farmer was born circa 1856 in Tennessee.
• Calloway Farmer and Malinda Pratt appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Other members of the household included Nancy Ann Farmer. Also in the household were sons Alex (age 19) and William (16), and daughters P. A. (14), E. J. (13) and S. J. (7.)
• Calloway Farmer and Malinda Pratt appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, enumerated near the household of Nancy's future husband Tolliver Brown. Other members of the household included Nancy Ann Farmer. Also in the household were children Eliza J. (age 21), Sarah M. (19), Amanda J. (8) and Calaway (5.)
• She married Tolliver Alexander Brown, son of Garland R. Brown and Lucy Hensley, on 5 April 1874 in Hamblen County, Tennessee, by license issued the 2nd, with W. H. Smith, MG, officiating.
• Lucy Hensley appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Hamblen County, Tennessee, enumerated next to the household of her son John Q. A. Brown. Other members of the household included Nancy Ann Farmer, Tolliver Alexander Brown. Also in the household were unmarried daughters Susan E. (age 54) and Sarah J. (50), and Tolliver's son Garland S. Brown (4.)
• Nancy Ann Farmer became a widow at the between 1880 and 1890 death of her husband Tolliver Alexander Brown.
• Nancy A. Brown applied for a widow's pension 15 August 1890, citing Tolliver A. Brown's invalid application dated 7 December 1871, for service in Company H, 32nd Kentucky Infantry Regiment. Neither this application, nor the application for a military grave marker, specifies Tolliver's date of death.
• Neither she nor her son Garland has yet to be found in the 1900 census.
• Charles Fletcher Brown appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Hamblen County, Tennessee. Other members of the household included Nancy Ann Farmer, Hugh Preston Brown. Also in the household were unmarried aunts Susan E. Brown (age 85) and Sarah J. Brown (81), and Joseph W. Brown (2), identified as a son. Widowed Aunt Nancy A. Brown likely was the wife of Tolliver Brown, and mother of Hugh.

• Last Edited: 17 Jun 2015