Advertisement

Advertisement

Nancy Ann Edrington Sinclair

Birth
Warrick County, Indiana, USA
Death
25 Jul 1882 (aged 41–42)
Union Township, Perry County, Indiana, USA
Burial
French Lick, Orange County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
View Source
According to researchers of the family name, Edrington is also found as Ethrington, Etherington, Eddrington, Ederington, Edington and Edderington among a few other alternate spellings.
This Edrington family is from Virginia and many are in Kentucky and others went west into Nebraska.

Nancy Edrington, daughter of Silas Edrington and Elizabeth Fisher, granddaughter of John Edrington and Mary Wickliff and of John Fisher and Sarah Latham.

Sister of Fannie, William Latham, Isaphena and an unknown sibling, and half-sister by her father's first wife Frances Latham of John, Mary, Hannah, Austin and Charles Latham Edrington.

Married Ransom Sinclair on 26 Apr 1857 in Orange County Indiana. They were the parents of 8 documented children: M.M. who died in infancy, Isaphene Elizabeth aka Josephine (married Aden Baysinger), Mary Elizabeth (believed deceased before 1880 or left home and married young), Susan Pearl (married Francis Harvey, Willis Brewster and Willam South), William S. (married Martha E. Sigler), McClelland "Mack" (married Anna Traylor), James A. (missing after 1880 - assumed left home), and Mary Elvira (married Louis Clark and Charles D. Davis). We don't know what happened to James A. Sinclair or his sister Elizabeth.

Nancy, Ransom and their children moved many times during the period of their marriage. They lived in Newton Stewart, Orange County; Riceville, Crawford County; Birdseye in Dubois County; Augusta in Pike County; Winslow in Pike County; Washington in Daviess county; Bloomfield Greene County and finally a little town near Cannelton in Perry County where they rented farmland. Times were very hard for them after the Civil War and her husband Ransom returned from Sherman's March to Savannah Georgia permanently injured. His injuries impaired his ability to farm and work and the injuries remained with him to his death in 1912.

Nancy died from "dropsy" which is a symptom of heart disease when she was only 42, leaving several very young children who grew up not remembering their mother. Her death record in Perry County has very little information and does not have a birth date.

She was buried in the Sinclair cemetery in an unmarked grave near what would become the original burial place of her husband's cousin, Pleasant Sinclair. Because she was in an unmarked grave, it is most certain that she was left behind when the Sinclair cemetery was moved to Orange County and Patoka Lake was created.

My aunt remembers visiting the original gravesite with grandma Martha before the cemetery was moved to the Patoka Memorial Cemetery for the river project, and listening to grandma's stories about Nancy and the family.

---------------------
Nancy St Clair in the Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920
Name: Nancy StClair
[Nancy A. Edrington]
[Nancy A. Sinclair]
Date: 25 Jul 1882
Location: Perry County
Age: 41 Yr
Gender: Female
Race: White
Source location: County Health Office, Tell City, Indiana
Source notes: The source of this record is the book CO-1 on page 10 within the series produced by the Indiana Works Progress Administration.

NOTE: I am finding certain family trees that have her death as Union City, Perry County, Indiana. There is no Union City in Perry County. The place of death on the death record is very difficult to read except that she died in Union Township, Perry County, Indiana.
According to researchers of the family name, Edrington is also found as Ethrington, Etherington, Eddrington, Ederington, Edington and Edderington among a few other alternate spellings.
This Edrington family is from Virginia and many are in Kentucky and others went west into Nebraska.

Nancy Edrington, daughter of Silas Edrington and Elizabeth Fisher, granddaughter of John Edrington and Mary Wickliff and of John Fisher and Sarah Latham.

Sister of Fannie, William Latham, Isaphena and an unknown sibling, and half-sister by her father's first wife Frances Latham of John, Mary, Hannah, Austin and Charles Latham Edrington.

Married Ransom Sinclair on 26 Apr 1857 in Orange County Indiana. They were the parents of 8 documented children: M.M. who died in infancy, Isaphene Elizabeth aka Josephine (married Aden Baysinger), Mary Elizabeth (believed deceased before 1880 or left home and married young), Susan Pearl (married Francis Harvey, Willis Brewster and Willam South), William S. (married Martha E. Sigler), McClelland "Mack" (married Anna Traylor), James A. (missing after 1880 - assumed left home), and Mary Elvira (married Louis Clark and Charles D. Davis). We don't know what happened to James A. Sinclair or his sister Elizabeth.

Nancy, Ransom and their children moved many times during the period of their marriage. They lived in Newton Stewart, Orange County; Riceville, Crawford County; Birdseye in Dubois County; Augusta in Pike County; Winslow in Pike County; Washington in Daviess county; Bloomfield Greene County and finally a little town near Cannelton in Perry County where they rented farmland. Times were very hard for them after the Civil War and her husband Ransom returned from Sherman's March to Savannah Georgia permanently injured. His injuries impaired his ability to farm and work and the injuries remained with him to his death in 1912.

Nancy died from "dropsy" which is a symptom of heart disease when she was only 42, leaving several very young children who grew up not remembering their mother. Her death record in Perry County has very little information and does not have a birth date.

She was buried in the Sinclair cemetery in an unmarked grave near what would become the original burial place of her husband's cousin, Pleasant Sinclair. Because she was in an unmarked grave, it is most certain that she was left behind when the Sinclair cemetery was moved to Orange County and Patoka Lake was created.

My aunt remembers visiting the original gravesite with grandma Martha before the cemetery was moved to the Patoka Memorial Cemetery for the river project, and listening to grandma's stories about Nancy and the family.

---------------------
Nancy St Clair in the Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920
Name: Nancy StClair
[Nancy A. Edrington]
[Nancy A. Sinclair]
Date: 25 Jul 1882
Location: Perry County
Age: 41 Yr
Gender: Female
Race: White
Source location: County Health Office, Tell City, Indiana
Source notes: The source of this record is the book CO-1 on page 10 within the series produced by the Indiana Works Progress Administration.

NOTE: I am finding certain family trees that have her death as Union City, Perry County, Indiana. There is no Union City in Perry County. The place of death on the death record is very difficult to read except that she died in Union Township, Perry County, Indiana.


Advertisement