Nancy Jane Johnson

Notes:

In November, 1954 Pleasant McLemore told his grand-niece, Ivy, that his mother "was a pratical nurse, and when nursing a righteous patient who succumbed, when she came home, she said he or she went straight to heaven." Pleasant took it upon himself to read her the scriptures about the long wait for death that would take place until Christ's second coming, and recalled that "the distressed look on her face made me sorry I ever told her...."

1893 San Antonio City Directory
Nancy J. McLemore, Boarding House (owner), resides at 710 Sherman

1894 San Antonio City Directory
Nancy J. McLemore, Widow, Boarding House (owner), resides at 725 Burleson

After K.J.s' death, she was said to have been briefly married to a Mr. GILLEY.

Melba Gene McLemore located her death certificate in California. California State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Local Registered number 11657.

Melba noted: "Mrs. E. Hughes was the informant on Nancy's death certificate. That would be her daughter Emily Mary "Emma" McLemore, who married 1st Rudolph Blum, 2nd Charles Leander Hughes. Nancy is living with her widowed daughter Emma in 1910, San Antonio,Texas. Emma and her mother Nancy, both widowed, have moved to California by 1915.

Rosa Dunkerley states in the papers preserved by Lynn Murchison, that mother Nancy died at age 92, as does Nancy's death certificate. By 1915 Emma has moved to California. She and her mother Nancy are living at the same address listed on Nancy's death certificate.

Name: K J McLemore
Gender: Male
Spouse: Nancy J McLemore (widow KJ) rents 620 W. Slauson
Publication Title:Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1915
Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Nancy Jane McLemore nee Johnson died of bronchial pneumonia on 7 December 1926 in Los Angeles, California. She is buried at Odd Fellows Cemetery. Sadly, her death certificate does not list her parents.

(Research):1880 Federal Census:

Household:

Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace?u?
?/u?S.E. WILLIAMS Self M Female W 25 TX Dress Maker MS TN ?u?
?/u?Keton J. WILLIAMS Son S Male W 4 TX IN TX ?u?
?/u?Mary M. WILLIAMS Dau S Female W 1 TX IN TX ?u?
?/u?N.J. MCLEMON Mother W Female W 43 TN Keeping House TN NC ?u?
?/u?Nancy A. MCLEMON Sister S Female W 15 TX At Home MS TN
Source Information:
Census Place E.D. 28, Luling, Caldwell, Texas
Family History Library Film 1255294
NA Film Number T9-1294
Page Number 244C

In 1900, she was living with her stepson, Felix H McLemore in Parker County (near Fort Worth).

In 1910, she was with her daughther, Emily Hughes, in San Antonio.

Nancy married Keton Jones McLemore after 1853 in Texas. Keton was born about 1809 in Kentucky; died after 1873 in Bastrop County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
In his March 1, 1955 letter to a niece, Pleasant McLemore enumerated his own sibling group "Elisabeth, Emma, Bob, Addie, Rose, Pleasant."

1. Mattie McLemore was born about 1853 in Texas; died about 1853 in Texas.
2. Sarah Elizabeth McLemore was born on 15 Oct 1854 in McDade, Bastrop County, Texas; died on 18 Aug 1941 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.
3. Robert "Bob" Johnson McLemore was born about 1857 in McDade, Bastrop County, Texas; died about 1911 in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
4. Emily "Emma" Mary McLemore was born in Jun 1859 in Texas; died after 1920 in Boerne, Kendall County, Texas.
5. Nancy Adaline "Addie" McLemore was born on 25 Sep 1864 in Texas; died on 12 Jan 1923 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
6. Rufus Walter McLemore was born on 26 Apr 1867 in East Waco, McLennan County, Texas; died before Nov 1868 in Seguin, Guadalupe County, Texas.
7. Rosa Ann Vernetta McLemore was born on 27 Jul 1869 in Seguin, Guadalupe County, Texas; died on 9 Dec 1954 in Houston, Harris County, Texas.
8. Pleasant Cornelius McLemore was born on 11 Nov 1873 in McDade, Bastrop County, Texas; died on 19 Sep 1955 in Houston, Harris County, Texas; was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas.