Person:Nancy Brown (13)

Nancy Ann Brown was born ca 1774 somewhere in Virginia. Her birth date was given in the William Dugger bible as "Ann Brown Pierce born Sept 24, 1779" (the 9 is probably a misread 4, or perhaps not).

I don't know who her parents were. Her first husband was a Pierce (or Pearce) who died prior to 1809.

On 8 Apr 1809 "William Dugger" and "Ann Pearce" married in Carter Co., TN. This marriage was recorded in the regular marriages and also mentioned with a slightly different date in the Revolutionary War Pension application filed by William's children:

... that after the death of his first wife the said William Dugger on 4-04-1809 married Nancy Ann Brown Peirce, they were married by Julius Dugger, a Justice of the Peace, and she resided with her husband in Carter County, Tennessee to the day of his death in 1888 (sic). That his second wife died in the county of Carter, state of Tennessee on 7-06-1850 ...

William Dugger made his Will in Carter Co, TN on 10 Apr 1839 naming all of his heirs including "my wife Anna."

For the 1840 census, Ann and her unmarried children were apparently residing with Benjamin Tarlton Dugger in Carter Co, TN, as his household contains a lot of extra people and he had just gotten married that same year.

Nancy Ann was listed as head of household on the 1850 census in Carter Co, TN. She had several of her unmarried daughters residing with her. Her sons William C. Dugger and Benjamin T. Dugger were in the next two households. The young children in Ann's household were her grandchildren by Mary Ann Sabra Dugger, who was not married.

Nancy Ann Brown Pearce Dugger died on 6 Jun 1850, which was just a few days after the census (1 Jun 1850). Her death date was reported in the Revolutionary War Pension application that William's children filed in 1853.