Nancy Easter Coleman

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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nansemondcolemans/c35nancytn.htm#S429

She was the only child from Benjamin Franklin Coleman's second marriage. It was difficult for her to identify with her other half-brothers and sisters as a child because there was such an age gap. She was 16 years younger than her closest older half-sibling and 13 years older than her nearest younger half-sibling.
From what her descendants reported, she had a fairly lonely and sad childhood. Her father left to join the Union Army a month before she was born and wasn't home permanently until she was 3 years of age. Her mother died when she was 10 years old, leaving her alone with her then 54 year old father who was unable to adequately take care of her. It was reported to Cy that from that time until her marriage she was shuffled around from one relative to another.
Nancy's grandfather, D. S. Jones, had given Nancy and her mother 30 acres in Bakewell in 1872 where the Cincinnati Southern Railroad (now Southern Railway) would eventually build in a few years. Nancy was involved in a lawsuit with the railroad in early 1878. The railroad was suing for right-of-way and Nancy was countersuing for her fence being torn down and damage being done to property on her land. Both sides apparently won as the railroad had to rebuild her fence and pay damages for the property damaged, but Nancy was forced to deed the railroad a corner of her property comprising 2.17 acres for the railroad right-of-way.
It was the remaining land Nancy apparently lived on after her marriage to William M. Evans on 09/01/1878, in Bakewell. They were married by Francis Clarion Bandy, a lay minister of the Bakewell commmunity at that time.

Nancy married William M. Evans on 1 Sep 1878 in Bakewell, Hamilton County, Tennessee. William was born on 11 Oct 1856 in Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee; died on 14 Nov 1928 in Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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married by Francis Clarion Bandy, a lay minister of the Bakewell commmunity at that time

1. John H. Evans was born on 11 Mar 1883 in Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee; died on 18 Nov 1967 in Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee; was buried in Varner Cemetery, Soddy-Daisy, Hamilton County, Tennessee.