Nancy Conway Sevier
BIRTH: 22 Mar 1772
Virginia, USA
DEATH: 15 Jul 1843 (aged 71)
Jonesborough, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL
James Sevier Cemetery
Washington County, Tennessee, USA
NANCY SEVIER - Died, on Sunday morning last, at her residence in this county, after a protracted and painful illness of many months, MRS. NANCY SEVIER, consort of JAMES SEVIER Esq., in the 71st year of her age. Her constitution had been impaired by disease for the last fifteen or twenty years of her life, but not so seriously as to prevent her generally occupying her seat in the sanctuary of God - the love fest meeting - and the classroom. She had been about fifty years an acceptable and exemplary member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; twenty-six years of that time, and until a house of worship was erected in her vicinity, there was regular circuit preaching at her house, which was over a home for the Ministers of the Gospel, and the hospitalities of which are remembered with lively sensations by many of the pioneers of Methodism, and were remembered by the venerable ASBURY and others, till the day of their death. She was warm in her affections, generous in her disposition; and respected, beloed and lamented, by a large family of children and relatives, and by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. She never had a difficulty with a neighbor, nor with any member of the Church, of which she lived and died a proud ornament.
The deceased selected both a text and a hymn, to be used on the occasion of her funeral sermon. They are the following;
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away."
The Jonesborough Whig, and Independent Journal, (Jonesborough, TN) Wednesday, March 15, 1843; Issue [44]; col E - transcribed by, Amanda Jowers.
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