Nancy Hatfield

'You may be looking for Nancy Hatfield, the daughter of Joseph Hatfield and Mary Polly Heather. This article is about her aunt.'

Nancy Jane Hatfield (1821-1908) was the seventh of twelve children born to Reuben Hatfield and Mary Polly Comstock, as well as the sister of Betty, Calvin, Joseph, Elizabeth, Mary, Andrew, Stanley, Susan, James, Hiram, and John. She was also the wife of Harrison Jackson Weldon, as well as the mother of Loisa, Nancy, Andrew, Reuben, Thurman, Matilda, Rachel, Charity, and Lathena.

Biography
Nancy was born in 1821 in Tennessee. She grew up with her parents, Reuben and Mary, along with her siblings in Tennessee and Kentucky. Her older sister, Betty, died in 1838 when Nancy was seventeen.

She married Harrison Jackson Weldon in 1840 in Missouri at the age of 19. Their first five children (Loisa, Nancy, Andrew, Reuben, and Thurman) were born in Missouri. In between 1845 and 1849, the family moved to Decatur, Iowa, where their four other children (Matilda, Rachel, Charity, & Lathena).

As of 1870, according to Census records, they lived in Wilson, Kansas. From 1889 to 1902, Nancy experienced the deaths of her siblings Stanley, Susan, Elizabeth, Mary, Calvin, Andrew, and John, as well as the death of her spouse in 1901.

Nancy died on November 21, 1908 in Decatur, Iowa at the age of 87.

Trivia

 * She was the sheriff of Decatur County, Iowa.