CSA Veteran - Successful Businessman - Loving Husband & Father - Embodiment of Christian Living.
Samuel Simpson Nash was born in Hillsborough, Orange County, NC, the 6th of 9 known children (4 boys/ 5 girls) born to prominent attorney, Henry Kollak Nash and his wife, Mary Simpson.
His paternal grandfather was Rev. Frederick Kollack Nash (1781-1858), son of Abner Nash (1740-1786) and his second wife, Mary Whiting Jones Nash, who was one-time Governor of North Carolina. His father's sisters, Sally & Maria Nash, along with their cousin, Sara Kollock, operated the Nash-Kollock School, a school for young ladies in Hillsborough from 1859 to 1890. The school was in the Nash home, one part of which had been built in the eighteenth century by Isaac Edwards, secretary to Governor Tryon. Frederick Nash built the three-story addition in 1817 after he purchased the place from Duncan Cameron. A further addition was made in 1863 as the school grew. Today in Orange Co. you will find the intersection of Nash & Kollock Streets.
Sam Nash was born on Easter Day, April 23, 1848 in Hillsborough, and grew up in the family home there. As a teenager, Nash joined the Confederate Army. It is not clear which regiment he joined, as two stories are reported about his enlistment. One story claims he joined in 1864, at the age of 16, and he enlisted in the 27th North Carolina Infantry, Cooke's Brigade, A.N.V. At the breaking of the Confederate lines at Petersburg, he was captured and was imprisoned in Point Lookout until the summer of 1865. Another story claims he had joined the Confederate Army at age 15 and served in the 55th NC Regiment until being captured at Appomatox. Whichever story is true, it is well known he was a CSA veteran and active in veteran renunions after the War.
When the Civil War ended, Sam came home and eventually moved to Wilmington, NC where he resided for a time with his older sister Elizabeth, who had become the 2nd wife of William Lord DeRosset, a merchant and member of the prominent DeRosset family in Wilmington. The 22-year old CSA veteran worked as a clerk in his brother-in-law's Commericial Merchant business until 1872, when he came to Tarboro, Edgecombe County, NC to open his own business.
In Tarboro, he met his bride, and in 1878, 30-year old Samuel S. Nash married 19-year old Annie Gray Cheshire, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, who was rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in Tarboro, and responsible for creating its beautiful gardens featuring original Victorian plantings and design. Rector J. B. Cheshire planted the botanical treasure house, described as "defining the character of Tarboro, historically and aesthetically." Annie's brother, Joseph Blount Cheshire, Jr. would later become Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina in 1893.
Samuel "S. S." Nash became a prominent businessman in Tarboro, beginning with a grocery store, then a hardware store on Main Street, and in his later years, President of Tarboro Cotton Mills and Secretary/Treasurer of the Building & Loan. The couple took up housekeeping in the now historic, Cheshire-Nash house, on E. Church Street, built ca. 1869. This still-standing brick Gothic Cottage is attributed to architect Thomas Coates, and features a patterned slate roof, bold sawnwork bargeboards and brickwork related to a small, but important, family of cottages -- rare in NC, but found throughout the Tarboro area.
Sam Nash and Annie Gray Cheshire would have 7 known children, with 6 surviving to adulthood: Joseph Cheshire Nash (1880-1954) Elizabeth "Lizzie" (1882-1975), Arabella (1885-1970), Annie Gray (1887-1978), Samuel Simpson, Jr. (1889-1940), and Pembrook Nash (1904-1994).
Samuel Simpson Nash died in 1930, in his 81st year, and it was reported his funeral, overseen by Rev. Bertram E. Brown of Calvary Episcopal, was the largest attended of any that ever took place in the county. It was said of him that it was difficult to describe adequately the beauty, the wonder of his Christian life. ...it would be safe to say that no clergyman of any church ever did more actual work in the saving of souls and the guiding of men and women in the Christian life, working under no other obligation to do this work than his love for God and man. Folks also said he attended every Confederate reunion for many years and had been looking forward to going to Biloxi, but God granted him an even more joyful reunion with the great majority of his comrades and his majestic leader, Robert E. Lee, in Paradise.
His lovely bride of 52 years, became a widow at age 71, and amazingly survived another 21 years, passing in 1951 at age 92.
Samuel Simpson Nash was born in Hillsborough, Orange County, NC, the 6th of 9 known children (4 boys/ 5 girls) born to prominent attorney, Henry Kollak Nash and his wife, Mary Simpson.
His paternal grandfather was Rev. Frederick Kollack Nash (1781-1858), son of Abner Nash (1740-1786) and his second wife, Mary Whiting Jones Nash, who was one-time Governor of North Carolina. His father's sisters, Sally & Maria Nash, along with their cousin, Sara Kollock, operated the Nash-Kollock School, a school for young ladies in Hillsborough from 1859 to 1890. The school was in the Nash home, one part of which had been built in the eighteenth century by Isaac Edwards, secretary to Governor Tryon. Frederick Nash built the three-story addition in 1817 after he purchased the place from Duncan Cameron. A further addition was made in 1863 as the school grew. Today in Orange Co. you will find the intersection of Nash & Kollock Streets.
Sam Nash was born on Easter Day, April 23, 1848 in Hillsborough, and grew up in the family home there. As a teenager, Nash joined the Confederate Army. It is not clear which regiment he joined, as two stories are reported about his enlistment. One story claims he joined in 1864, at the age of 16, and he enlisted in the 27th North Carolina Infantry, Cooke's Brigade, A.N.V. At the breaking of the Confederate lines at Petersburg, he was captured and was imprisoned in Point Lookout until the summer of 1865. Another story claims he had joined the Confederate Army at age 15 and served in the 55th NC Regiment until being captured at Appomatox. Whichever story is true, it is well known he was a CSA veteran and active in veteran renunions after the War.
When the Civil War ended, Sam came home and eventually moved to Wilmington, NC where he resided for a time with his older sister Elizabeth, who had become the 2nd wife of William Lord DeRosset, a merchant and member of the prominent DeRosset family in Wilmington. The 22-year old CSA veteran worked as a clerk in his brother-in-law's Commericial Merchant business until 1872, when he came to Tarboro, Edgecombe County, NC to open his own business.
In Tarboro, he met his bride, and in 1878, 30-year old Samuel S. Nash married 19-year old Annie Gray Cheshire, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, who was rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in Tarboro, and responsible for creating its beautiful gardens featuring original Victorian plantings and design. Rector J. B. Cheshire planted the botanical treasure house, described as "defining the character of Tarboro, historically and aesthetically." Annie's brother, Joseph Blount Cheshire, Jr. would later become Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina in 1893.
Samuel "S. S." Nash became a prominent businessman in Tarboro, beginning with a grocery store, then a hardware store on Main Street, and in his later years, President of Tarboro Cotton Mills and Secretary/Treasurer of the Building & Loan. The couple took up housekeeping in the now historic, Cheshire-Nash house, on E. Church Street, built ca. 1869. This still-standing brick Gothic Cottage is attributed to architect Thomas Coates, and features a patterned slate roof, bold sawnwork bargeboards and brickwork related to a small, but important, family of cottages -- rare in NC, but found throughout the Tarboro area.
Sam Nash and Annie Gray Cheshire would have 7 known children, with 6 surviving to adulthood: Joseph Cheshire Nash (1880-1954) Elizabeth "Lizzie" (1882-1975), Arabella (1885-1970), Annie Gray (1887-1978), Samuel Simpson, Jr. (1889-1940), and Pembrook Nash (1904-1994).
Samuel Simpson Nash died in 1930, in his 81st year, and it was reported his funeral, overseen by Rev. Bertram E. Brown of Calvary Episcopal, was the largest attended of any that ever took place in the county. It was said of him that it was difficult to describe adequately the beauty, the wonder of his Christian life. ...it would be safe to say that no clergyman of any church ever did more actual work in the saving of souls and the guiding of men and women in the Christian life, working under no other obligation to do this work than his love for God and man. Folks also said he attended every Confederate reunion for many years and had been looking forward to going to Biloxi, but God granted him an even more joyful reunion with the great majority of his comrades and his majestic leader, Robert E. Lee, in Paradise.
His lovely bride of 52 years, became a widow at age 71, and amazingly survived another 21 years, passing in 1951 at age 92.
CSA Veteran - Successful Businessman - Loving Husband & Father - Embodiment of Christian Living.
Samuel Simpson Nash was born in Hillsborough, Orange County, NC, the 6th of 9 known children (4 boys/ 5 girls) born to prominent attorney, Henry Kollak Nash and his wife, Mary Simpson.
His paternal grandfather was Rev. Frederick Kollack Nash (1781-1858), son of Abner Nash (1740-1786) and his second wife, Mary Whiting Jones Nash, who was one-time Governor of North Carolina. His father's sisters, Sally & Maria Nash, along with their cousin, Sara Kollock, operated the Nash-Kollock School, a school for young ladies in Hillsborough from 1859 to 1890. The school was in the Nash home, one part of which had been built in the eighteenth century by Isaac Edwards, secretary to Governor Tryon. Frederick Nash built the three-story addition in 1817 after he purchased the place from Duncan Cameron. A further addition was made in 1863 as the school grew. Today in Orange Co. you will find the intersection of Nash & Kollock Streets.
Sam Nash was born on Easter Day, April 23, 1848 in Hillsborough, and grew up in the family home there. As a teenager, Nash joined the Confederate Army. It is not clear which regiment he joined, as two stories are reported about his enlistment. One story claims he joined in 1864, at the age of 16, and he enlisted in the 27th North Carolina Infantry, Cooke's Brigade, A.N.V. At the breaking of the Confederate lines at Petersburg, he was captured and was imprisoned in Point Lookout until the summer of 1865. Another story claims he had joined the Confederate Army at age 15 and served in the 55th NC Regiment until being captured at Appomatox. Whichever story is true, it is well known he was a CSA veteran and active in veteran renunions after the War.
When the Civil War ended, Sam came home and eventually moved to Wilmington, NC where he resided for a time with his older sister Elizabeth, who had become the 2nd wife of William Lord DeRosset, a merchant and member of the prominent DeRosset family in Wilmington. The 22-year old CSA veteran worked as a clerk in his brother-in-law's Commericial Merchant business until 1872, when he came to Tarboro, Edgecombe County, NC to open his own business.
In Tarboro, he met his bride, and in 1878, 30-year old Samuel S. Nash married 19-year old Annie Gray Cheshire, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, who was rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in Tarboro, and responsible for creating its beautiful gardens featuring original Victorian plantings and design. Rector J. B. Cheshire planted the botanical treasure house, described as "defining the character of Tarboro, historically and aesthetically." Annie's brother, Joseph Blount Cheshire, Jr. would later become Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina in 1893.
Samuel "S. S." Nash became a prominent businessman in Tarboro, beginning with a grocery store, then a hardware store on Main Street, and in his later years, President of Tarboro Cotton Mills and Secretary/Treasurer of the Building & Loan. The couple took up housekeeping in the now historic, Cheshire-Nash house, on E. Church Street, built ca. 1869. This still-standing brick Gothic Cottage is attributed to architect Thomas Coates, and features a patterned slate roof, bold sawnwork bargeboards and brickwork related to a small, but important, family of cottages -- rare in NC, but found throughout the Tarboro area.
Sam Nash and Annie Gray Cheshire would have 7 known children, with 6 surviving to adulthood: Joseph Cheshire Nash (1880-1954) Elizabeth "Lizzie" (1882-1975), Arabella (1885-1970), Annie Gray (1887-1978), Samuel Simpson, Jr. (1889-1940), and Pembrook Nash (1904-1994).
Samuel Simpson Nash died in 1930, in his 81st year, and it was reported his funeral, overseen by Rev. Bertram E. Brown of Calvary Episcopal, was the largest attended of any that ever took place in the county. It was said of him that it was difficult to describe adequately the beauty, the wonder of his Christian life. ...it would be safe to say that no clergyman of any church ever did more actual work in the saving of souls and the guiding of men and women in the Christian life, working under no other obligation to do this work than his love for God and man. Folks also said he attended every Confederate reunion for many years and had been looking forward to going to Biloxi, but God granted him an even more joyful reunion with the great majority of his comrades and his majestic leader, Robert E. Lee, in Paradise.
His lovely bride of 52 years, became a widow at age 71, and amazingly survived another 21 years, passing in 1951 at age 92.
Samuel Simpson Nash was born in Hillsborough, Orange County, NC, the 6th of 9 known children (4 boys/ 5 girls) born to prominent attorney, Henry Kollak Nash and his wife, Mary Simpson.
His paternal grandfather was Rev. Frederick Kollack Nash (1781-1858), son of Abner Nash (1740-1786) and his second wife, Mary Whiting Jones Nash, who was one-time Governor of North Carolina. His father's sisters, Sally & Maria Nash, along with their cousin, Sara Kollock, operated the Nash-Kollock School, a school for young ladies in Hillsborough from 1859 to 1890. The school was in the Nash home, one part of which had been built in the eighteenth century by Isaac Edwards, secretary to Governor Tryon. Frederick Nash built the three-story addition in 1817 after he purchased the place from Duncan Cameron. A further addition was made in 1863 as the school grew. Today in Orange Co. you will find the intersection of Nash & Kollock Streets.
Sam Nash was born on Easter Day, April 23, 1848 in Hillsborough, and grew up in the family home there. As a teenager, Nash joined the Confederate Army. It is not clear which regiment he joined, as two stories are reported about his enlistment. One story claims he joined in 1864, at the age of 16, and he enlisted in the 27th North Carolina Infantry, Cooke's Brigade, A.N.V. At the breaking of the Confederate lines at Petersburg, he was captured and was imprisoned in Point Lookout until the summer of 1865. Another story claims he had joined the Confederate Army at age 15 and served in the 55th NC Regiment until being captured at Appomatox. Whichever story is true, it is well known he was a CSA veteran and active in veteran renunions after the War.
When the Civil War ended, Sam came home and eventually moved to Wilmington, NC where he resided for a time with his older sister Elizabeth, who had become the 2nd wife of William Lord DeRosset, a merchant and member of the prominent DeRosset family in Wilmington. The 22-year old CSA veteran worked as a clerk in his brother-in-law's Commericial Merchant business until 1872, when he came to Tarboro, Edgecombe County, NC to open his own business.
In Tarboro, he met his bride, and in 1878, 30-year old Samuel S. Nash married 19-year old Annie Gray Cheshire, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, who was rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in Tarboro, and responsible for creating its beautiful gardens featuring original Victorian plantings and design. Rector J. B. Cheshire planted the botanical treasure house, described as "defining the character of Tarboro, historically and aesthetically." Annie's brother, Joseph Blount Cheshire, Jr. would later become Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina in 1893.
Samuel "S. S." Nash became a prominent businessman in Tarboro, beginning with a grocery store, then a hardware store on Main Street, and in his later years, President of Tarboro Cotton Mills and Secretary/Treasurer of the Building & Loan. The couple took up housekeeping in the now historic, Cheshire-Nash house, on E. Church Street, built ca. 1869. This still-standing brick Gothic Cottage is attributed to architect Thomas Coates, and features a patterned slate roof, bold sawnwork bargeboards and brickwork related to a small, but important, family of cottages -- rare in NC, but found throughout the Tarboro area.
Sam Nash and Annie Gray Cheshire would have 7 known children, with 6 surviving to adulthood: Joseph Cheshire Nash (1880-1954) Elizabeth "Lizzie" (1882-1975), Arabella (1885-1970), Annie Gray (1887-1978), Samuel Simpson, Jr. (1889-1940), and Pembrook Nash (1904-1994).
Samuel Simpson Nash died in 1930, in his 81st year, and it was reported his funeral, overseen by Rev. Bertram E. Brown of Calvary Episcopal, was the largest attended of any that ever took place in the county. It was said of him that it was difficult to describe adequately the beauty, the wonder of his Christian life. ...it would be safe to say that no clergyman of any church ever did more actual work in the saving of souls and the guiding of men and women in the Christian life, working under no other obligation to do this work than his love for God and man. Folks also said he attended every Confederate reunion for many years and had been looking forward to going to Biloxi, but God granted him an even more joyful reunion with the great majority of his comrades and his majestic leader, Robert E. Lee, in Paradise.
His lovely bride of 52 years, became a widow at age 71, and amazingly survived another 21 years, passing in 1951 at age 92.
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