Boone County, KY - Bios:  Hamilton, Nance Elizabeth

Monday, July 2, 2001



Submitted by:  Buddy & Linda Harbin Grubbs Boone County, Kentucky lharbing@worldnet.att.net

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Supplement To The Boone County Recorder, Illustrated Historical Edition, R. E. Berkshire, 

Publisher, Burlington, Kentucky, Thursday, September 4, 1930



Nance Elizabeth Hamilton



Nance Elizabeth Hamilton had more to do with the advancement of moral and mental education 

in the Verona section than any other person, and if there be any of the finer thoughts in the 

minds of the citizens of that community it is probably because of the influence for good given 

out by this lady whose memory is honored and revered second to none in the community. She was 

the daughter of Carter B. and Elizabeth Currant Hamilton and was born June 20, 1844. She passed 

away on March 14, 1927.



She began the teaching of school in 1858, teaching sixty-five years altogether, fifty-five 

years of which time was spent in Boone county. In some families she taught three generations, 

and there’s hardly a person in the Verona precinct, other than children, but who have attended 

her private school at one time or another. She was the founder of the League Institute at 

Verona. She was a graduate of the Hillsboro (O.). Female College.