Nancy was the daughter of Jesse Fletcher Wixom and Mary "Polly" Morecraft. She was married to William McComber in Buchanan County, Missouri, in 1840. The marriage is confirmed through records, although it is not possible to confirm exactly why she was in Missouri when most of her family apparently was in Illinois. Recently, it was discovered that a married sister, Esther Wixom Cook, apparently was living in Buchanan County around 1840 (although she was in Illinois by the 1850 census), so possibly Nancy was living with or near her at the time she married William.
Nancy had at least two children before 1850 (John Fletcher, born 1841 in Missouri, and Mary Catharine). By the 1850 census, her husband had gone to California for the Gold Rush, while she remained in LaSalle County, Illinois, where much of her family was living. It is unknown exactly when or how (e.g., ship or overland) she and the two oldest children joined him in California, but by 1853 she was in California (where her sons William Alfonso and George Matthew were born).
Nancy and William farmed in Yolo County, in the Sacramento Valley of California, in the 1860s. By the early l870s, they had settled in Shasta County, California, near Round Mountain, where they remained for the rest of their lives.
The exact locations of Nancy's and William's graves are not known at this time, but family history says that that there was a family burial ground on or near the property in Shasta County owned by their son, John Fletcher McComber, which was in the family until the mid-1880s when John took a homestead a few miles away. Searches in the 1930s and 1940s for a family graveyard, in the location Nancy's granddaughter recalled being a place for family burials (including her oldest brother, who died as a child), were not successful (the spot she remembered, which is on the Oak Run Road in Shasta County, at the top of a small hill, now is covered by a barn).
Children: John Fletcher, Mary Catharine ("Katie"), William Alfonso and George Matthew. A family Bible says that William was born June 18, 1853 in California, and died September 22, 1875 (presumably in California, but the location is not indicated). George was born November 28, 1855 in California, according to family records. He is not found in census records after 1860 so probably died in either Yolo or Shasta County. Mary Catharine married David Timothy Scoggins (Find A Grave Memorial # 125034273) in Yolo County and died in February 1891 in Butte County. Her husband remarried in the late 1890s.
Note regarding Nancy's date of death: the date given here is from a family Bible belonging to Nancy's daughter. However, it may be noteworthy that she is mentioned in an 1881 Shasta County directory, yet there is no trace of her in the 1880 census to date although her two surviving children were living in the same area where the family was located from the early 1870s onward; as such, the year logically might be 1880.
Nancy had at least two children before 1850 (John Fletcher, born 1841 in Missouri, and Mary Catharine). By the 1850 census, her husband had gone to California for the Gold Rush, while she remained in LaSalle County, Illinois, where much of her family was living. It is unknown exactly when or how (e.g., ship or overland) she and the two oldest children joined him in California, but by 1853 she was in California (where her sons William Alfonso and George Matthew were born).
Nancy and William farmed in Yolo County, in the Sacramento Valley of California, in the 1860s. By the early l870s, they had settled in Shasta County, California, near Round Mountain, where they remained for the rest of their lives.
The exact locations of Nancy's and William's graves are not known at this time, but family history says that that there was a family burial ground on or near the property in Shasta County owned by their son, John Fletcher McComber, which was in the family until the mid-1880s when John took a homestead a few miles away. Searches in the 1930s and 1940s for a family graveyard, in the location Nancy's granddaughter recalled being a place for family burials (including her oldest brother, who died as a child), were not successful (the spot she remembered, which is on the Oak Run Road in Shasta County, at the top of a small hill, now is covered by a barn).
Children: John Fletcher, Mary Catharine ("Katie"), William Alfonso and George Matthew. A family Bible says that William was born June 18, 1853 in California, and died September 22, 1875 (presumably in California, but the location is not indicated). George was born November 28, 1855 in California, according to family records. He is not found in census records after 1860 so probably died in either Yolo or Shasta County. Mary Catharine married David Timothy Scoggins (Find A Grave Memorial # 125034273) in Yolo County and died in February 1891 in Butte County. Her husband remarried in the late 1890s.
Note regarding Nancy's date of death: the date given here is from a family Bible belonging to Nancy's daughter. However, it may be noteworthy that she is mentioned in an 1881 Shasta County directory, yet there is no trace of her in the 1880 census to date although her two surviving children were living in the same area where the family was located from the early 1870s onward; as such, the year logically might be 1880.
Nancy was the daughter of Jesse Fletcher Wixom and Mary "Polly" Morecraft. She was married to William McComber in Buchanan County, Missouri, in 1840. The marriage is confirmed through records, although it is not possible to confirm exactly why she was in Missouri when most of her family apparently was in Illinois. Recently, it was discovered that a married sister, Esther Wixom Cook, apparently was living in Buchanan County around 1840 (although she was in Illinois by the 1850 census), so possibly Nancy was living with or near her at the time she married William.
Nancy had at least two children before 1850 (John Fletcher, born 1841 in Missouri, and Mary Catharine). By the 1850 census, her husband had gone to California for the Gold Rush, while she remained in LaSalle County, Illinois, where much of her family was living. It is unknown exactly when or how (e.g., ship or overland) she and the two oldest children joined him in California, but by 1853 she was in California (where her sons William Alfonso and George Matthew were born).
Nancy and William farmed in Yolo County, in the Sacramento Valley of California, in the 1860s. By the early l870s, they had settled in Shasta County, California, near Round Mountain, where they remained for the rest of their lives.
The exact locations of Nancy's and William's graves are not known at this time, but family history says that that there was a family burial ground on or near the property in Shasta County owned by their son, John Fletcher McComber, which was in the family until the mid-1880s when John took a homestead a few miles away. Searches in the 1930s and 1940s for a family graveyard, in the location Nancy's granddaughter recalled being a place for family burials (including her oldest brother, who died as a child), were not successful (the spot she remembered, which is on the Oak Run Road in Shasta County, at the top of a small hill, now is covered by a barn).
Children: John Fletcher, Mary Catharine ("Katie"), William Alfonso and George Matthew. A family Bible says that William was born June 18, 1853 in California, and died September 22, 1875 (presumably in California, but the location is not indicated). George was born November 28, 1855 in California, according to family records. He is not found in census records after 1860 so probably died in either Yolo or Shasta County. Mary Catharine married David Timothy Scoggins (Find A Grave Memorial # 125034273) in Yolo County and died in February 1891 in Butte County. Her husband remarried in the late 1890s.
Note regarding Nancy's date of death: the date given here is from a family Bible belonging to Nancy's daughter. However, it may be noteworthy that she is mentioned in an 1881 Shasta County directory, yet there is no trace of her in the 1880 census to date although her two surviving children were living in the same area where the family was located from the early 1870s onward; as such, the year logically might be 1880.
Nancy had at least two children before 1850 (John Fletcher, born 1841 in Missouri, and Mary Catharine). By the 1850 census, her husband had gone to California for the Gold Rush, while she remained in LaSalle County, Illinois, where much of her family was living. It is unknown exactly when or how (e.g., ship or overland) she and the two oldest children joined him in California, but by 1853 she was in California (where her sons William Alfonso and George Matthew were born).
Nancy and William farmed in Yolo County, in the Sacramento Valley of California, in the 1860s. By the early l870s, they had settled in Shasta County, California, near Round Mountain, where they remained for the rest of their lives.
The exact locations of Nancy's and William's graves are not known at this time, but family history says that that there was a family burial ground on or near the property in Shasta County owned by their son, John Fletcher McComber, which was in the family until the mid-1880s when John took a homestead a few miles away. Searches in the 1930s and 1940s for a family graveyard, in the location Nancy's granddaughter recalled being a place for family burials (including her oldest brother, who died as a child), were not successful (the spot she remembered, which is on the Oak Run Road in Shasta County, at the top of a small hill, now is covered by a barn).
Children: John Fletcher, Mary Catharine ("Katie"), William Alfonso and George Matthew. A family Bible says that William was born June 18, 1853 in California, and died September 22, 1875 (presumably in California, but the location is not indicated). George was born November 28, 1855 in California, according to family records. He is not found in census records after 1860 so probably died in either Yolo or Shasta County. Mary Catharine married David Timothy Scoggins (Find A Grave Memorial # 125034273) in Yolo County and died in February 1891 in Butte County. Her husband remarried in the late 1890s.
Note regarding Nancy's date of death: the date given here is from a family Bible belonging to Nancy's daughter. However, it may be noteworthy that she is mentioned in an 1881 Shasta County directory, yet there is no trace of her in the 1880 census to date although her two surviving children were living in the same area where the family was located from the early 1870s onward; as such, the year logically might be 1880.
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The dates shown here are from a family Bible. She was buried in a family plot, the exact location of which has not been determined (a building now stands on the site identified based on family oral history)
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