Lee-Chambers County AlArchives Biographies.....Garrett, Nancy April 1842 - 1909
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John Simmons http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007486 June 14, 2018, 12:15 pm

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Author: John Simmons

Nancy was born Nancy Ann Mahala McHargue. She was born about April of 1842 
in Upson County, Georgia. Her parents have yet to be determined. She was 
married to Matthew T. Garrett in Upson County in 1855. She and Matthew moved 
to Chambers County, Alabama and were living there in 1860. War came to the 
south and to Alabama in 1861. Her husband entered the Confederate Army with 
the 37th Alabama Infantry. He was in the fighting near Corinth in 
Mississippi and was at the seige of Vicksburg. He was a POW after the fall 
of Vicksburg and was paroled. Matthew came back to Alabama and rejoined his 
unit and was in the fighting at Chattanooga. His regiment surrendered at 
Durham Station in North Carolina.  After the war ended and Matthew came home 
the family resumed their lives as much as possible. Matthew returned to 
farming and by 1870 he and Nancy were living at Berlin and Chambers 
Courthouse in Chambers County, Alabama. By 1880 Nancy and her family lived 
at Bluffton, now known as Lanett, in Chambers County. By 1900 She and her 
family had moved and were living in Ridge Grove Precinct and Gold Hill 
village in Lee County, Alabama. Her husband died in 1903 and was buried at 
Farmville in Lee County. Nancy filed for a pension as a widow of a 
Confederate Veteran. She continued to receive a pension until after 1908. 
 She was listed as dead on the January 1909 register. She was listed 
receiving pension in 1908. 
Census records for 1900 indicate date of birth April 1842

Nancy and Matthew had 13 children. The 1900 census indicated that 10 of her 
children were living as of June that year. 


Additional Comments:
Her place of burial and exact date of death have not yet been determined. 

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