Sarah Woodson Clardy m. REUBEN SAUNDERS NANCE; Their family notebook

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Text excerpted from Dave Nance's Definitive Nance Genealogy Clearinghouse

REUBEN SAUNDERS NANCE (b. 1808) was a son of Reuben Nance (b.1745, Brunsick, VA d.1812, Henry Co., VA) and Nancy Brown (b.1767, d.1825). Reuben Saunders married Sarah Woodson Clardy (b. 1812). They lived in Saint Clair Co, MO.

In his own words as kept in his notebook, here is Reuben Saunders Nance's

"FAMILY RECORD"

Reuben Saunders Nance was born May 28th 1808
and was married to his wife Sarah Woodson Clardy July 16th 1831. Sarah Woodson Clardy was born April 2 1812. [Their children]--
| Mary Jane Nance was born January 12 1833
| Sarah Brown Nance was born November 15th 1835
| James Saunders Nance was born April 4th 1837
| Benjamin Franklin Nance was born Nov 29th 1841
| William Lessonby Nance was born Dec 25th 1844
| Amanda Ellen Nance was born March 19th 1848
| Edmund Lewis Nance was born 8th August 1851
| John Woodson Nance was born June 29 1855

The notebook also contains the following Family remedies and prescriptions:

(Feb 8 1891) "For sick horse - Take Ticture(sic) ( ?) 6 drops on tongue.
in one hour give Belladonna 6 drops. W. L. Nance" -- NOTE: Like a number
of later entries, this entry appears to have been made by William Lessonby Nance, Reuben's son

(undated) "Cure for Whooping cough - 2 oz. ( ?) beat fine and mix with 1
pint good whisky, 2 oz tincture of spanish flies, 2 oz tincture of
assafoetidae. For a grown person 60 or 70 drops 3 times per day. & for
children 20 or 30 drops 3 times per day. All the above remedies should be mixed together".

(undated) "A receipt for the Dropsy. Take 2 gallons of good apple
vinegar put it in a pot put ( ?) ( ?) in simmer down to one quart take
one handful of camomile and one handful of (swee modly?) each must be
tops and roots as mutch as a man can grip cut them both fine and put them
in an earthen pitcher poar the liqeur on it keep warm twenty four hours
strain it threw a cloth ad one pound of brown shoogar bottle it up take
a large table spoonful three times a day"

(undated) "The 25 day of October, for the present situation of Mr. Nance
make the dogwood bark tea strong by Seeping in cold water and let it be
half of the quantity tak one handful of tanzy and take four sprigs of
hoarhound beet or squeez and steep in cold water til strong"

(undated) "A ( ?) for the lungs Take one handful of hoarhound and one
half handful of dogwood bark and nearly one handful of (Essecampaign)
and half as much (crimphoy) as (Essecampaign) and ( ?) it take ( ?) galls of honey ( ?) "

Joni Mueller , who is descended from Reuben Saunders' Nance's brother EDMUND,
discovered that the University of Missouri- Rolla has, in its "Western
Historical Manuscript Collection", a notebook kept by Reuben Saunders
Nance. According to Joni, "There are some interesting things in it, like
school attendance sheets for his children, records from a store I
believe he owned, & even some "remedies" for horses and women who
faint?!!" The accounts receivable from mercantile operations cover the
years 1838-1857; the records of school attendance cover 1854-1856; and
there are miscellaneous memoranda from 1857-1903.
Some of the Notebook is difficult to read, and some of it is fairly
uninformative (genealogically speaking) listings of expenditures,
receipts, and other matters -- some apparently personal, some connected
to Reuben S. Nance's textile business. Some of it, however, is fascinating. The remedies are just plain interesting.

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