Nancy Jane Masters was born to Thomas Masters and Martha Jane Long Masters.She married James Henry Kines.Her children are Turner Newland also know as "Newton","Newland" and "Nute",Rebecca Ellen "Becky",Fannie Scott,Martha,Rushie and Ruth are the same person and a infant child.She was a house wife and when she lived in Nicholasville,Kentucky.I heard stories that she use to dress Chicken"s with her grandaughter Grace Perrin Watts.And I heard Margie Watts Stamper talking one time about her working some were and her Band-Aid's on her noise fell in to some one's salad.Little is known about her except that she was subpose to be part cherokee Indian.And that my father John Roy Watts Jr said he found the records down in Frankfort,Kentucky for her and her husband that he was Cheynne Indian and she was Cherokee and that the name was spelled with a Q instead of K.Which I have found many spellings for these people names.Nancy and James are buried at the Bass Cementery in Mitchell,Lawrance Co,Indiania in a un marked grave.Her Daughter Fannie said when she was a child the would take the horse and wagon from Jessamine co,Kentucky to Mitchell,Indiania.And that it would take a day to go threw Louisville,Kentucky and that they would barow Coffey on the way over and on the way back threw they would pay for the Coffey.
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Obituary
Nancy Jane Masters Kines the oldest child of Thomas and Martha Jane Long Masters, was born in Jessamine co, Kentucky on July 29, 1852.She was married to James Henry Kines in the year of 1870, her husband passing on March 8, 1917.
To this union were born six children, one having died in infancy, the other five remaining to mourn her lose. They are Mrs. Rebecca Ellen Kines Nugent Perrin, of Nicholasville, KY,. Mrs,Fannie Scott Kines Perrin,Brownstown,Indiania.Mrs, Martha Kines Tillett and Mrs.Rushie “Ruth” Phillips Jones, of Mitchell and Turner Newton Kines of whose home she passed away.Twenty-five grandchildren,twelve great grand children, four brothers who live in Kentucky and a host of other relatives and friends mourn her loss.
She had been an invalid since Sept 1925, but was taken seriously ill Wednesday and died Sunday morning at five minutes after nine o’clock and was buried at the Bass Cemetery Monday afternoon at three o’clock. A dear one absent from our home. A voice we loved is stilled. A chair is vacant in our home, which never can be filled.