Little of Nancy's life prior to her marriage to David Goodnight about 1834 is known. We have her mother's first and presumed married name, Mary Killian, from an 1860 census in Van Buren County, AR. About that time Nancy started using her middle name, Rebecca, rather than her first name.
Her life was a remarkable journey out of pre-Civil War trans-Appalachia into the wilderness of Arkansas in the late 1830's. She and her family were in Arkansas during the Civil War but soon after left for Taney County, MO where they settled on Bull Creek north of present day Walnut Shade. In 1872 she left with her husband on a wagon train for Colorado where he eventually owned part interest in a gold mine.
Nancy's name appears on a rare mid-1880's census in Fremont County in the home of her youngest son, David E., and wife Sarah (Calvert). It is presumed she died some time after that census and was likely buried near present day Canon City, possibly in the cemetery where her son and his wife and perhaps even her husband were interred.
Her life was a remarkable journey out of pre-Civil War trans-Appalachia into the wilderness of Arkansas in the late 1830's. She and her family were in Arkansas during the Civil War but soon after left for Taney County, MO where they settled on Bull Creek north of present day Walnut Shade. In 1872 she left with her husband on a wagon train for Colorado where he eventually owned part interest in a gold mine.
Nancy's name appears on a rare mid-1880's census in Fremont County in the home of her youngest son, David E., and wife Sarah (Calvert). It is presumed she died some time after that census and was likely buried near present day Canon City, possibly in the cemetery where her son and his wife and perhaps even her husband were interred.
Little of Nancy's life prior to her marriage to David Goodnight about 1834 is known. We have her mother's first and presumed married name, Mary Killian, from an 1860 census in Van Buren County, AR. About that time Nancy started using her middle name, Rebecca, rather than her first name.
Her life was a remarkable journey out of pre-Civil War trans-Appalachia into the wilderness of Arkansas in the late 1830's. She and her family were in Arkansas during the Civil War but soon after left for Taney County, MO where they settled on Bull Creek north of present day Walnut Shade. In 1872 she left with her husband on a wagon train for Colorado where he eventually owned part interest in a gold mine.
Nancy's name appears on a rare mid-1880's census in Fremont County in the home of her youngest son, David E., and wife Sarah (Calvert). It is presumed she died some time after that census and was likely buried near present day Canon City, possibly in the cemetery where her son and his wife and perhaps even her husband were interred.
Her life was a remarkable journey out of pre-Civil War trans-Appalachia into the wilderness of Arkansas in the late 1830's. She and her family were in Arkansas during the Civil War but soon after left for Taney County, MO where they settled on Bull Creek north of present day Walnut Shade. In 1872 she left with her husband on a wagon train for Colorado where he eventually owned part interest in a gold mine.
Nancy's name appears on a rare mid-1880's census in Fremont County in the home of her youngest son, David E., and wife Sarah (Calvert). It is presumed she died some time after that census and was likely buried near present day Canon City, possibly in the cemetery where her son and his wife and perhaps even her husband were interred.
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