Family:Zebulon Vance and Harriet Espy (1)

Parents: David Vance and Myra Baird Zebulon Baird Vance b. 13 May 1830 Buncombe, North Carolina, United States d. 14 Apr 1894 Washington, District of Columbia, United States	Parents: Unknown Espey and Louisa Tate Harriet Newell Espey b. 1832 Burke, North Carolina, United States d. 3 Nov 1878

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Marriage^[1]^[2]

3 Aug 1853

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	Charles Noel Vance	Abt 1856 North Carolina	11 Sep 1922 Morganton #2, Burke, North Carolina
2.	David Mitchell Vance	8 Dec 1857 North Carolina	25 Oct 1894 Morgantown, Alamance County, North Carolina
3.	Zebulon Baird Jr Vance	Abt 1860 North Carolina
4.	Thomas Malvern Vance	Abt 1863 North Carolina

Research Notes

References

↑ Harriett Newell Espey and Zebulon Baird Vance, in Greenlee, Ralph Stebbins. Genealogy of the Greenlee families in America, Scotland, Ireland and England: with ancestors of Elizabeth Brooks Greenlee and Emily Brooks Greenlee : also, genealogical data on the McDowells of Virginia and Kentucky. (Chicago, Ill.: Priv. print., 1908).

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... Harriet Newell Espey, who married Zebulon Baird
Vance (afterward governor of North Carolina) and left four
children. ...
↑ Harriet Newell Espey and Senator Vance, in United States Congress. Memorial addresses on the life and character of Zebulon Baird Vance:: (late a senator from North Carolina) delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, Fifty-third Congress, third session. (Govt. Print Office, 1895).

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Senator VANCE was happy in his married life. In his early manhood he was married to Miss Harriet Newell Espey, of North Carolina. She was a woman of high intellectual endowments, of uncommon moral force, of exemplary piety, and exercised a great influence for good over her devoted husband which lasted during his life. Their union was blessed with four sons, who survived their parents.