Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 580-582 [McCracken]

     MONROE NANCE.  In Troup county, Georgia, Monroe Nance was born
on the 23rd day of March, 1835.  Paternally Mr. Nance is of Welsh
descent.  His grandfather, Joseph Nance, was a Virginian, and one of
a very large family of children.  His father was twice married and
was the father of twenty-seven children, two of whom were named
Reuben and two named Sally.  Twenty-five of them grew to manhood and
womanhood.  The family were not only remarkable because of its large
membership, but also because of individual worth and honor.
     The parents of our subject were Clement and Malinda (Ledbetter)
Nance, natives of Virginia and Georgia, respectively.  They were
married in Georgia, whence they removed to Tennessee and later to
Kentucky.  They had ten children, of whom Monroe was the oldest and
Thomas Milton the youngest, the former being the subject of this
sketch, which is followed by a personal mention of the latter.  The
father was a cabinet-maker by trade, and was of a roaming and
unsettled disposition.  Rather late in life he left home to seek a
more desirable place of residence and employment, and thereafter no
trace of him did his family gain.  When fifty-six years of age his
wife was called away in death.  She was buried in Camp Beauregard
graveyard at Water Valley, Kentucky.  She was an ardent Methodist, a
woman of force of character, a dutiful wife and kind and
affectionate mother and friend.  Her father, Ephraim Ledbetter, was
a native of Georgia and a soldier of the war of 1812.  He
participated in the battle of New Orleans under General Jackson,
winning honors for gallant conduct.
     When Monroe Nance was eight years old his parents removed to
Trigg county, Kentucky, and six years later to Marshall county, this
state.  He received a common school education, and then took up the
carpenter's trade, at which he worked from 1854 to 1875.  He came to
Paducah in 1868, and since that date has resided in this city.  In
1875 he embarked in the undertaking business, in which he has
continued with success, having interred more than fifteen thousand
persons, and during the twenty-eight years he has been in the
business he has held the highest esteem of the public.  No business
man of Paducah is better or more favorably known than Mr. Nance. 
Though he began the battle of life a poor youth, and when he took up
his business career he had limited capital, Mr. Nance has prospered
in business, now possessing a desirable competence.  While he is a
stanch Democrat, he has never been active in politics, and though
for some fifteen years he served as county coroner he has never
sought political honors or preferment.
     Mr. Nance is a Knight Templar Mason, prominent in the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Ancient Order of United Workmen
and Knights of Honor, and formerly a member of the Knights of
Pythias fraternity.  He is also a member of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church, to which he gives loyal support and contributes
liberally.
     In the year 1859 Mr. Nance married Miss Clio Grubb, a native of
Franklin, Kentucky.  To Mr. and Mrs. Nance were born the following
named children: Guy, Lee, Joseph, Edward, Samuel, Clement, Hattie,
Ada, Monroe and Nellie.
     Guy, Lee and Samuel reside in California; Joseph is living in
the state of Washington; Edward and Monroe are employed in Paducah;
Hattie is at home; Ada is the wife of A. E. Wood, of Davenport,
Iowa; and Nellie is the wife of Dr. C. H. Warner, of Paducah.

Nance Ledbetter Grubb Wood Warner
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Troup-GA VA TN Trigg-KY Marshall-KY CA WA IA

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