Nance, Zachariah

Born: 1760-05-05 Charles City County, Virginia

Died: 1835-12-22 Menard County, Illinois

Flourished: 1832-1835 Menard County, Illinois

Nance is the father of Eaton Nance. Nance was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. By 1832, he and his wife, Elizabeth, had settled their family in a part of Sangamon County, Illinois, that is now southern Menard County.

Election Returns for the New Salem Precinct in Sangamon County, Illinois; The History of Menard and Mason Counties, Illinois (Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1879), 286, 288; Gravestone, Farmers Point Cemetery, Tallula, IL.