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Note: arber Family Bible, which I have seen. "Documentation for birth-death-marriage. Gordon Burney, PO Box 515, Summerland, FL 93067. Letter received Nov, Dec 1993 by Marilyn P Devaney. Photocopy of family Bible sent to Gordon by Dave Moore, Sarasota, FL, 21 March, 1993." The page was sent to me by Marilyn Devaney listed above. It reads:
"Nancy Moore was born on Jan the 29th in the year 1809."
The source for the reconstruction of the first family family of Lewis Bledsoe Austin with wife Nancy Moore is the 1850 Virginia census, Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: District 19, Grayson, Virginia; Roll: M432_947; Page: 174B; Image: 37.
Nancy died in 1853. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: "Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853–1912." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.
Name: Nancy Austin
[Nancy Moore]
Birth Date: abt 1809
Birth Place: Grayson County, Virginia
Death Date: 9 Mar 1853
Death Place: Grayson, Virginia
Death Age: 44
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Gender: Female
Father Name: Isaac Moore
Mother Name: Sally
Spouse Name: Bledsoe Austin
FHL Film Number: 2056981
The source for the second wife of Lewis is Source Information
Ancestry.com. West Virginia, Marriages Index, 1785-1971 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data:
"West Virginia Marriages, 1853–1970." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2008, 2009. Digital images of originals housed in County Courthouses in various counties throughout West Virginia. Marriage records.
Name: Bledso Austin
[Lewis Bledsoe Austin]
Gender: Male
Spouse's Name: Matilda P George
Spouse Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 1856
Marriage Place: Mercer
This couple is found on the 1860 Virginia census. It is assumed that David, Floyd, Amanda, and Malinda are Nancy's children and the last three are Matilda's. This census is the source for the approximate age and birth location of Matilda. "United States Census, 1860", database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M41V-PR1 : 30 December 2015),
Bledsoe Austins M 53 Virginia
Matilda Austin Matilda Austin F 35 Virginia
David C Austin David C Austin M 18 Virginia
Floyd B Austin Floyd B Austin M 16 Virginia
Amanda Austin Amanda Austin F 13 Virginia
Malinda Austin Malinda Austin F 11 Virginia
Thomas G Austin Thomas G Austin M 3 Virginia
Ellen A Austin Ellen A Austin F 2 Virginia
Larissa Austin Larissa Austin F 0 Virginia
Subsequent research in 2016 found the FindaGrave.com page for this couple, and their birth and death dates are transcriptions from their headstones in the Centerville cemetery. The following undocumented but interesting information accompanied Matilda's page on FindaGrave.com:
"Matilda Parsons George married Lewis Bledsoe Austin 9 Sep 1856 in Grayson, VA. They had 7 children between 1857 and 1865. The family owned a plantation but lost everything after the Civil War. They removed from Virginia to Radersburg, MT, in 1872, traveling from Corrine, UT, to Radersburg, MT, in a covered wagon. Her husband, Lewis Bledsoe Austin, owned a hotel and ranched in the Radersburg area and later owned a hotel in Jefferson City, MT. In her later years, Matilda Parsons George Austin lived with her daughter, Lucy Victoria Austin Willcox in Centerville, MT (very near present-day Townsend, MT, and not far from Radersburg). She died 15 Jan 1894 at the age of 70 and is buried in the Willcox family plot near her daughter Lucy in the the Centerville cemetery."
The above reference to their marriage in Grayson County is a mistake as the marriage record cited farther above lists Mercer County.
Note: A source for the birth date of Nancy is a photocopy of a page from the B
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