Nancy was the mother of 14 children. Her first marriage to Philermon Davis was short and produced 1 child, Mary Jennie Irene Davis Page. Her second marriage to Stokely Peal produced 13 children.

Epitaph: In Heaven there is One Angel More

She was initially buried in the Peal cemetery and re-interred at Mt Juliet in 1966 for the Percy Preist Lake project.

Her Obit
92 Year old woman dies in the home of her birth

Mrs. Nancy Ann Peal, Oldest Couchville Pike Resident, Molded Bullets for Confederates

Death wrote this final chapter in the life of Mrs. Nancy Ann Peal Wednesday afternoon in the same house where, 92 years ago, the first entry was made upon her birth.
She was born in a low log house on the Couchville Pike in 1838, the daughter of Marshall and Mary Vanderville Dennison. Yesterday she died of a broken hip received five weeks ago, after having lived a life that had carried her through great-great-grandmotherhood.

Before the Civil War she marreid S.D. Peal, farmer, and they continued to live in her birthplace as her parents moved to another home on the Murfreesboro Road. When the war borke out she gave a husband, a father and two brothers to the confederacy. During those trying years Mrs. Peal remained at home with samll children and daily molded bullets for the soldiers, fixed tempting lunches and knitted socks and in various other ways aided to carrying on the fight for the South. Soldies visited her home between battles, for they had heard of her cordial hospitality and intense enthusiasm for their cause. So close was her touch with the Confederate soldiers that Mrs. Peal was one of the best informed survivors of that time and was frequently visited in later years by those seeking authentic information of battles.

She was fond of recounting happenings of the war days and was constantly sought for those stories by children of the community in which she lived in addition to her 35 grandchildren, 43 great grandchildren, and 8 great grand children, by whom she is survived.

At the time of her death she was the only surviving member of a group of residents of Couchville Pike who lived in the 60's.

In addition to her home life Mrs. Peal was very active in church affairs. Time not required by her family, which consisted of fourteen children, of whom eight survive, was given to church and charity work. She was a member of the Church of Christ.

Her home was the center of the community and she was known to hundreds of people, both young and old.

Surviving her are the following children: Mrs. Mattie A. Young, Mrs. M.P. Clements, Mrs. Edna Seaborn, W.M. Peal, Miss Daisy Peal, Mrs. F.H. Eubank, T.F. Peal, and Mrs W.B. Phillips; a sister Mrs. T.H. Young, and a brother. W.S. Dennison.

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the residence, with Elder R.V.Cawthorn in charge.

Burial will be in the family cemetery with nephews serving as honorary pallbearers and grandsons as active pallbearers.