Nearly all of us have 64 great-great-great-great grandparents. I'm getting to know mine.
Below are two pages on three sheets showing the marriage of Abram Prim to Nancy Cook in Wilson County, Tennessee on February 19, 1819.
The second and third image show the backside of the document. I flipped the last page so you could read the bridegroom's name.
Source: Ancestry.com. Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records, 1780-2002 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
The 1850 Fed. Census tells me Nancy Elizabeth Cook was born about 1798 in North Carolina. It follows she was about 21 when she married Abram Prim in early 1819.
Abram and Nancy were my mother's 3x GGrandparents through her father's side. If you too are related to Arthur, this shows how his dad descends from Abram:
Abram acquired some land in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Today it is the fifth-most populated area of Tennessee. But then? I wonder if his property was already cleared. Was it "wooded", flat, hilly? Was it good farm land? He and Nank appear there in the 1810 and 1820 Federal censuses.
Several land registers at this database mention Abram or Abraham Prim(m) as owner of property. He appears at the bottom of this second image:
Source: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Ancestry.com. Tennessee, U.S., Early Land Registers, 1778-1927 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
The 1830 census finds Nancy and Abram in Limestone County, Alabama--with six children. (It wasn't until 1850 that censuses gave names and ages of wives and children). And that's the last record I have for my Abram. I don't know his birth year nor when he died. The 1830 census indicates he was between the ages of 40 and 49 that year.
See Abram as the fourth name on the left of this 1830 Fed. census excerpt:
Abram's widow Nancy (also called Elizabeth) next appears in the 1850 Fed. Census in Johnson County, Arkansas. She is 52, gives a birth location of North Carolina, and lives with her eldest son's family. Both she and daughter Louise are "unable to read or write." That census did not ask marital status as did most others after 1850.
This is the last record I find on Nancy (Cook) Prim. No burial location known. She was not living with her son James in the 1860 census, nor with her daughters.
It is dangerous to assume in genealogy. Yet it is a fair assumption that Abram died in Alabama or Arkansas. Well, then. I can't rule out he didn't up and journey to California in 1849 with a few thousand others, can I? #GoldRush.