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- Nancy, age 5, is on the 1860 Jackson Co., TN census, entry 676/676, in the HH of Thomas J. Stafford.
Adaline, age 14, is listed on the 1870 Jackson Co., Tenn. census in the HH of her widowed mother Rhody Stafford.
ELKIN, JOHN, Admr of ELKINS, ADELINE vs STAFFORD, RHODA 1877
DEPOSITIONS 12 July 1877: . . .
ADJOURNED - RESUMED Friday 13, 1877.
M. L. Gore age 36. Know farm where T. J. Stafford died, now occupied by J. H. Stafford. Understand John Elkins' interest to be one-third interest...don't know boundary. Was acquainted with Nancy Adaline Stafford who married John Elkins. She was 10 or 11 when her father died. Married John Elkins 4 or 5 years after her father died. Her mother Rhoda Stafford sent her to school, clothed and provided well. She [Nancy Adaline] is now dead. A portion of the time she boarded away from home while at school.
It is my understanding Nancy Adline died leaving a living infant who died soon after the death of its mother and it was by this way that John Elkins became owner of the land. He sold said land soon after the death of said child.
T. J. Stafford owed me some money when he died. Rhoda Stafford rented out the farm and paid it. Believe she was hard run to provide for her children for several years after her husband's death. The farm was out of repair at the death of T. J. The widow improved it, made her daughter's part more valuable. s/s M. L. Gore
BILL OF COMPLAINT: John Elkins and wife Nancy A. Elkins by their regular guardian William E. Elkins, all of Jackson Co. against Rhoda Stafford and Anderson Stafford of Jackson Co.
Thomas Stafford departed life intestate 1866 or 1867, died seized and possessed of land in Dist. 1 on Roaring River adjacent lands of S. S. Gray, W. R. Stafford and lands of Kelly heirs and others... 450 acres more or less. At death Rhoda Stafford his widow, Complainant Nancy A. Elkins and Joel T. Stafford and Anderson Stafford were his only children and heirs. Nancy A. was then and is now a minor under 21, had no guardian until her marriage with John Elkins which occurred in 1873, at which time W. E. Elkins was appointed guardian of Nancy A. and John Elkins.
Nancy A. took sick in October after she married John Elkins. Rhoda [X] Stafford
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Abt 1854 - Yes, date unknown
