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Author: Goodspeed

p.919-920.



VANCE, HILL, CRUTCHER, JONES, McWILLIAMS, EDDINGS



Jacob VANCE is a native of the "Palmetto State", born in 1814, son of James

and Nancy (HILL) VANCE of North Carolina, born in 1786 and died in 1848 and

1857, respectively.  Of their six children four are living:  Malinda (Mrs.

Robert CRUTCHER of Texas), Sarah (Mrs. Samuel JONES of California), Maria

(widow of Asbury McWILLIAMS, of Giles County) and our subject, Jacob, who

was reared and educated in Giles County and resided with his parents until

twenty-two years of age.  September 24, 1839, he wedded Mary Ann EDDINGS,

daughter of Abraham EDDINGS.  Mrs. VANCE was born in October, 1821, in

Alabama.  To them was born one child - W. P. (deceased).  In 1849 Mr. VANCE

purchased 400 acres of land in Giles County, but sold out in the fall of

1850, and the following year came to Lincoln County and purchased 478 acres

near Fayetteville, where he is now residing.  His farm is highly improved

and furnished with good buildings and fences.  Mr. VANCE is esteemed as an

honest and industrious citizen, and in his political views has been a

life-long Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for Hugh L. White,

in 1836.  He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  His son,

W. P. VANCE, died at the age of twenty-five years, when all earth's

brightness was promised him.  He was respected and loved for his many

virtues by all who knew him, and idolized by his parents and relatives.

His remains were followed to the tomb by the I.O.O.F. and the members of

the Agricultural Association.



Additional Comments:
From Goodspeed's "History of Tennessee"





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