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Hidalgo County New Mexico
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Nancy Blackwell Miller Luke English
1838 - 1920
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Nancy was born in Hickman County, TN, the sixth child of Jesse and Wincia Byrd Blackwell. The family moved to Franklin County, Arkansas around 1841 and it was here that Nancy married J Miller on 10/4/1852. The couple had a family including James R Miller, Douglas AZ. and Wincy J. Fitch Miller. After her husbands death Nancy later married William Luke on the 7/28/1861 and their family included Bill Luke Jr of Texas.
After William Luke’s death near the end of the Civil War Nancy married William Jasper English of Arkansas on 12/25/1865. Nancy and William had a family including Sibyl C Prather, Frank J and Laura, and later on after moving to Pipe Creek, Bandera County, Texas, John R, Irbert B, August M, Nancy Isabelle Sanford and Lee L were born. The family later moved further west to the Rodeo New Mexico and Portal, AZ area where they became well known. Nancy English was the Proprietor of Grandma English’s hotel in the early days of Rodeo, New Mexico. Her son Frank was murdered by John Slaughter’s men in a dispute over water. She was known as a warm, sweet lady. Nancy was 82 when she died at Rodeo.
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