Nance, Otway B.

Born: 1805-07-21 Virginia

Died: 1874-12-11 Texas

Flourished: Cass County, Illinois

In 1834, Nance lived in Kentucky and purchased federal land in what would later become Menard County, Illinois. By 1840, he had relocated his family from Kentucky to Cass County, Illinois. By 1850, he owned $10,000 worth of real estate. Sometime before 1860, Nance and his family moved to Dallas, Texas, where he was farming and owned $9,100 worth of real estate, with a personal estate of $8,200.

Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales, Menard County, 68:190, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Sixth Census of the United States (1840), Cass County, IL, 30; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Cass County, IL, 7; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Precinct 8, Dallas County, TX, 380; Gravestone, Wheatland Cemetery, Dallas, TX.