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Eleanor “Nellie” Shelby Lightner

Birth
Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee, USA
Death
1839 (aged 39–40)
Illinois, USA
Burial
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First wife of Robert Desha.
Grandmother of Alva Vanderbilt.
Robert Desha was granted a divorce from Eleanor on Oct. 3, 1833 for adultery (Sumner County Chancery Court, Vol A - C, Nov. 1826 - Apr. 1844, pp. 964-66). Some family trees show her death as Oct. 30, 1833, but according to Vanessa DeSha she married Levi Luther Lightner from Illinois and died in 1839 and her will filed in Illinois.
First wife of Robert Desha.
Grandmother of Alva Vanderbilt.
Robert Desha was granted a divorce from Eleanor on Oct. 3, 1833 for adultery (Sumner County Chancery Court, Vol A - C, Nov. 1826 - Apr. 1844, pp. 964-66). Some family trees show her death as Oct. 30, 1833, but according to Vanessa DeSha she married Levi Luther Lightner from Illinois and died in 1839 and her will filed in Illinois.


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