| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Tenth Generation5364. Nancy Ellen CLAPP2160 was born on 23 October 1849 in Knox Co., TN.336,1221,2161 She appeared in the census in 1860 in Union Co., TN.336 Nancy E. 10, F, W, TN She appeared in the census in 1870 in District 1, Union Co., TN. Nancy E., 20, F, W, TN Nancy died on 17 July 1908 at the age of 58 in Union Co., TN.1221,2161 Buried in Carr Cemetery, Union Co., TN. She was buried in July 1908 in Carr Cemetery, Maynardville, Union Co., TN.2161 Birth date from Calvin Clapp Bible. Birth date and death date on stone in Carr Cemetery, located south of Maynardsville, TN on old Hwy. 33. After Corum died Nancy moved to Fountain City to live near her mother and stepfather. Nancy Ellen CLAPP and Coram ACUFF were married on 23 June 1870 in Union Co., TN.942,1221,1744,2162 J. C. Baker, J.P. They942,1221,1744,2162 appeared in the census in 1880 in Maynardville, Union Co., TN.1258 Coram ACUFF Self M M W 33 TN Occ: Co. Clerk Fa: TN Mo: TN Hon. Coram Acuff, lawyer, was born in Grainger County August 23, 1846, the son of Simeon and Susan, (nee Strange) Acuff, the former of German origin, born in this country in 1818, still living, and a minister of the Missionary Baptist Church. He entered the ministry about 1840. The mother was born in 1816, and died in 1882, a member of said church. Our subject, the fourth of eight children, received a fair education, finishing at Walnut Grove, Knox County, after he was married. In July, 1862, he joined Company D, First Tennessee Federal Infantry. He was at one time taken prisoner, but soon taken to Rutledge, Tenn., where his old teacher, Ben Peck, and his father's family physician, Dr. J. P. Legg, procured his parole; he soon returned, and served until June, 1865. He farmed, taught and attended school until in 1874, when he was elected county court clerk of Union County, and was twice re-elected, serving twelve years. In 1886 he was admitted to the bar, having read and learned of the law during his clerkship. He was a representative of two counties in the Legislature in 1887-88. He was married to Nancy Ellen Clapp, of Maynardville, June 23, 1870, where they have since resided. They have three sons and one daughter, viz.: Charles B., Frank P., S. E. Neill and Ella Zell. He and his wife are Missionary Baptists. and he is an influential Republican. He is devoting his time to his profession as a lawyer. Nancy Ellen CLAPP and Coram ACUFF had the following children:
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