African Americans of the Kentucky Borderlands

Mcgruder, Nancy

Item

Title

Mcgruder, Nancy

Alias

unknown, Nancy [19]

Gender

Female

Biography

Nancy was possibly the sister of Jilson Hawkins. She was purchased by James Dinsmore in Missouri in 1825, and came to Kentucky in 1842. Nancy was separated from her husband Vincent, when she moved (different slaveholder, he stayed in Louisiana). In 1865 she left for Oxford, Ohio, however she returned for visits to the Dinsmore Homestead, where she later died in 1906.

Listed as a member of the Middle Creek Baptist Church (Belleview Baptist) in September 1865.

"Nancy was likely born in Kentucky and was sold down south to Natchez where she was purchased by John Minor in the 1820s. James Dinsmore bought her and Jilson Hawkins from the Minors and took them to Louisiana in 1829. She accompanied the family to Kentucky in 1842 and joined the local Middle Creek Baptist Church. She married Tom from the Rice family but he died several years afterwards. When the Civil War ended, she left the farm and joined other Boone County freed people in Oxford, Ohio. She returned to the Dinsmore farm in the 1880s, was nursed through her last years in the sick room inside the house. She died in 1906 and this is where we believe she was buried." --Cathy Callopy

Member

Mcgruder family

Birth date

1810

Place of birth

Virginia

Spouse(s)

unknown, Vincent

Death date

1906

Place of death

Boone County (Ky.)

Death and burial information

Dinsmore Cemetery (Boone County, Ky.)

Participant in

1865--Escape of Nancy Mcgruder

1865--Four Escape from Dinsmore Farm

Member of

Belleview Baptist Church (Belleview, Ky.)

Relationship

Slaveholder(s): Dinsmore, James

Dinsmoor, James

Source(s)

Ninth Census of the United States, 1870

Dinsmore Homestead Collection

Belleview Baptist Church Records

Find A Grave.com

Item sets

AA--Enslaved--Kentucky--Boone County--D

AA--Persons--Ohio--Butler County--M