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- Note on Find a Grave:
According to "Descendants of Peter and Dority Hart 1740-1995 Virginia and North Carolina and Allied Families" by Ruth Gibbs Hart and Karen L. Cooper
Nancy Hart was born ca 1784 on the New River, close to where Brush Creek enters the river, in Grayson County, Virginia. Her parents were Peter Hart Sr. and his wife Dority "Dolly", whose maiden name we do not know. Her father Peter had served in the Revolutionary War from Montgomery County, Virginia.
Nancy married 25 February 1805 Grayson County, Virginia to Andrew Hash, born ca 1780 Grayson County, Virginia. He was son of William Hash and his wife Eleanor Osborne.
Nancy and Andrew lived in Grayson County, Virginia for 25 years after their marriage and all seven of their children were born there. They are on the Grayson County, Virginia 1820 census records. They never owned land there, so perhaps they lived on the land of their parents. In 1829 or 1830 Andrew and Nancy decided to move to Whitley County, Kentucky.
Nancy's brother, John Hart and his family had already been living there for many years. At the time Andrew and Nancy made this move it seems likely that her sister and her husband, Stephen and Margaret Hart Floyd, her brother, Stephen Hart and his wife Sarah Bradford Hart, another brother, Peter Hart Jr. and his wife Hannah Poe Hart made the move to Whitley County, Kentucky along with them. All four families appear on the Whitley County Kentucky tax lists within three years of each other. Perhaps some went first and the others followed a few years later, but we find it more likely that for mutual help and safety they all traveled together. Some of the families settled and paid their taxes a few years before the others, but all appeared in Whitley County records within three years of each other.
Andrew and Nancy Hash first bought land on 30 September 1830 in Whitley County, Kentucky. They purchased 168 acres on Lynn Camp Creek from William and Elizabeth Dugger. Either, just prior to this or very shortly after the Hashs' also acquired another 120 acres on Lynn Camp Creek, which was probably bought by virtue of a Kentucky Land Warrant. This land was originally entered by W. Edwards. There was also another piece of land bought, 300 acres also on Lynn Camp Creek. This had originally been interred in the name of W. M. Bledsoe and was a Kentucky Land Warrant also. These two pieces of land that were Land Warrants are not in the books, they are registered at Frankfort, Kentucky. No one in this family has copies of these Warrants - but we presume them to exist. All three pieces of land on Lynn Camp Creek are listed by Andrew Hash on the 1830 Whitley County, Kentucky tax list for a total acreage owned of 588 acres and a declared value for the purpose of taxes of $688.00. In 1835 they are still living on Lynn Camp Creek and report 550 acres of land with a value of $600.00. On 2 July 1839 Andrew and Nancy Hash sold 50 acres on Lynn Camp Creek to Pricilla Early. This is the only land they sold in Whitley or surrounding counties.
On the 18th of March 1840, we find in Whitley County, Kentucky court order books that Andrew Hash had filed a complaint against his wife Nancy Hash. We do not find the original complaint, only the ruling of the court in March. Andrew and Nancy had separated and were living in separate homes on Lynn Camp Creek. We can tell from the 1840 tax list that there were 6 houses between the two of them. It is possible that some of their children were living in between them, but they were both living on Hash property on Lynn Camp Creek. The court ruled in March of 1840 that the property given by Andrew to Nancy should be retained by her, free from any claim by Andrew. They further decreed that the marriage contract between the two parties be annulled. Andrew and Nancy Hash were now divorced after 35 years of marriage. Nancy Hash reported 325 acres of land on the 1840 tax list, all on Lynn Camp Creek. Andrew Hash reported 300 acres, also on Lynn Camp Creek. Nancy's figure is likely a little too high as they had only owned 588 acres while they were married and had sold 50 acres of it in 1839.
On the 2nd of April 1840 (less than two weeks after the divorce), Andrew Hash, remarried to Betsy McCarty Hederick a widow, some 25 years younger than he. They had a son John Hash born in 1843. Andrew Hash died in late 1845 in Whitley County, Kentucky. In 1845 he was listed as paying taxes on 130 acres on Parks Branch. We do not find how he disposed of the other 170 acres he reported owning in 1840. There is no deed in Knox County, or Whitley County, Kentucky. In 1846 Joseph McFarland paid taxes for Andrew Hash, deceased on 100 acres on the Laurel River. One would presume that this is the same property Andrew reported in 1845. His widow, Elizabeth McCarty Hendrick Hash and their 7 year old son, John Hash, are found living with James and Telitha McCarty Nunn, presumably her child. Andrew Hash's estate appraisal is found in Whitley County, Kentucky in Will Book 1, dated December 1845. The sale was held 23 January 1846. Only personal property is mentioned. There is no mention of the dispursal of the property that Andrew owned at his death. Although no record or marker is found, it has been passed down that Andrew Hash was buried in Corinth Cemetery, South of Corbin, Whitley County, Kentucky.
Nancy Hart Hash reported and paid taxes on 325 acres of land on Lynn Camp Creek on the 1840 tax list. She appears again on the 1842 tax list with 268 acres on Lynn Camp Creek in Whitley County, KY. She moved with her children to Greene County, Indiana presumably in 1843 as she no longer appears on the tax list in Kentucky after 1842. She is living in the household of her son, John, on the 1850 census of Center Township, Greene County, Indiana. She is not on the 1860 Indiana census, so Nancy Hart Hash must have died between 1850 and 1860 in Greene County, Indiana. No record has been found of her death and nothing is known of where she is buried. Her son, John Hash and his wife are buried in Ridgeport Cemetery in Greene County Indiana. Perhaps she is buried with them.
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