Pleasant Riley Nash was the father of Emaline Nash Carson, the grandfather of Mary Elizabeth Carson Wyant, and the great grandfather of Bessie Ethel Wyant, my grandmother.
He was born on May 10, 1827 in Eminence Township, Morgan County, Indiana.
He died on October 30, 1899 in Songer Township of Clay County, Illinois.
His parents were Obediah Nash (1801-1851) and Nancy Edwards (1803-1888).
He married Elizabeth Gammon on August 12, 1850 in Orange County, Indiana.
In the 1850 census, he is 27 years old, still single, and living with the Mullens family. He is a farmer.
Their oldest of 7 children, Emaline Nash, was born in December 1853 in Illinois.
In the 1855 state census, they are counted in Clay County, Illinois.
In the 1860 census, he is 33 years old and living near Xenia, in Clay County, Illinois with wife Elisabeth (sic) and 3 children.
His wife Elizabeth dies on January 17, 1865 in Clay County, Illinois.
He married Nancy A. King on May 29, 1867 in Clay County, Illinois. She appears to have one child already.
In the 1870 census in Xenia, of Clay County, Illinois we have Pleasant, his wife Nancy and 7 Nash children and 1 King child. He is 42 years old.
In the 1880 census they are in Songer Township of Clay County, Illinois. He is age 53. They have 4 additional children, plus the older King child is at home.
His second wife, Nancy A. King died in 1897.
He marries Matilda Turner Gammon, his sister in law and wife of Elizabeth Gammon’s older brother, in Clay County, Illinois.
Pleasant Riley Nash died on October 30, 1899 in Songer Township of Clay County, Illinois.
Probate began on November 6, 1899.
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