Nancy was born in Jackson Co Tn. the daughter of James Key Witcher and his 1st wife, Mary L/N/U.

Nancy married James Slade, a Yankee Soldier who was born in England. They divorced at Ft. Leavenworth, Ks., and Nancy married on Aug, 10, 1864 at Ft. Leavenworth, James Bowlin, another Yankee Soldier, who was born in County Kildare, Ireland. They were the parents of one child, a daughter, who died very young. After Bowlin died in 1893 in Arapaho Co. Colorado , Nancy tried to find her family by putting an ad in a Collin Co, Tx. newspaper. She said that they were in Collin County when last she knew of them. She later wrote to her sisters, asking for help, but only her half sister, Sarah Catherine Holley would take her in. Jewell Blankenship Reynolds (1894-1995) rode with her Uncle Tom Holley ( 1881-1959) on team and wagon to the train station in Sunset, Tx. to get Aunt Nancy and her trunk. in 1898, she applied for and received, a pension from the Federal Government for her late husband's War related injury, incurred while serving in the U.S. Army. Nancy lived with Sarah Catherine until Sarah died in 1910 and then she lived with her nephew Tom Holley until Nancy died in 1911. Aunt Nancy had in her trunk a beaded pincushion that shows an eagle holding arrows. She said she had obtained it by trading eggs for it to some Plains Indians.It was passed on down thru Sarah Catherine's daughter, Louisa Jane Greenwood Denham, and was given to me by Julia Louisa Tinney. I gave it to a Witcher descendant, who still has it today (April 2022). Aunt Nancy had a milk cow, and Jewell Reynolds and her cousin, Lillie Addieville Denham Tinney would have to take the cow across the road (now Hwy 455 South of Forestburg) and let it graze. They would then have to go bring it back in the afternoon.

Aunt Nancy would say " I am full blood English, but my sister( Sarah Catherine) is only half English"

Nancy was my (Ron Holley's)1/2 great-grandaunt.