| Kenneth James Davis |
| Nancy Jane Prater 1 2 |
Buried Patrick Cem. , Madison Co. Ark., supposedly beside 1st husband, John Fraley. His grave is unmarked. Also supposedly, herparents lie in unmarked graves in Patrick Cem. Some say they're buriedin Brashears Cem. John Fraley was killed by bushwhackers during Civil War. See notes on John Fraley. Nancy Jane was called "Aunt Jane" by young neighbors.After the killing of John Fraley, another group of bushwhackers cameagain to her home and were stealing what little she had left,including a mare she had. She was slipping up behind a bushwhackerwho was about to take her mare, with an axe in her hand, ready to killhim. A neighboring Thornsberry boy, who had been forced to join upwith them, caught her just in time and stopped her, telling her "AuntJane, if you had killed him, they would have killed you, and then yourlittle children would have been orphans indeed." Nancy Jane took her children & went to Fayetteville for the balance of the war, working for other families, cleaning, etc. to make a livingfor them. After the war, she went back to her little cabin and founda lot of dried blood on the floor. Tho she scoured & scoured, shecould never get all the bloodstains up. She had an affair with a Union officer from Mo. and bore Elizabeth, born abt. 1866. No one knows his name. Not long after John Fraley's death, Nancy Jane was working in the fields, and looked up & saw her husband coming toward her. She turned& shouted to her children to come & see their daddy. When she turnedback around, his vision had disappeared. The children never saw him. Her father died sometime after the 1880 census. Nancy Jane was living just over the mountain from her parents with her second husband,Reuben Patton. Her father was gravely ill. While at her home, NancyJane looked up and saw a round light with feathers in it spinningaround & around rising up over the mountain top, and remarked that herdad was dead - that was his spirit leaving. She hastened to herparents home & sure enough, her father had just died.The 1920 census shows her birth as Jan. of 1831. Her tombstone says died l0-18-1909, aged 82 yrs. Most of the censuses would have herborn abt. 1833, so that's the date I picked, whether right or not.
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