Nancy ARNOLD3,1

17902 - 27th Mar 18492,3

Life History

1785	Born in Virginia.1,2
1790	Born.2
4th Jun 1805	Birth of daughter Margaret Bush GAINES in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina.4,1
31st May 1807	Birth of daughter Philadelphia Sylvania GAINES in South Carolina.3,1
14th Jan 1813	Birth of daughter Marinda Jane GAINES in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina.2
between 1814 and 1836	Married James GAINES.
1818	Birth of daughter Elizabeth A GAINES in Pickens District, South Carolina.2,1
1823	Birth of daughter Catherine J GAINES in South Carolina.2
5th Aug 1841	Death of James GAINES in Pickens District, South Carolina.3
27th Mar 1849	Died in Pickens District, South Carolina, at home of W G Mullinnix.2,3

Birth of daughter Zylphia GAINES.

There appears to be considerable uncertainty on the birth date for Hancy Arnold. Various sources in a short initial search produced three different dates, in a range of 24 years! The date of 1785 is most reasonable in reference to the known birth date of her husband, James Gaines, in 21 July 1783.

The source that gives a birth date for her in 1766, however, is the only one that reports a place of birth, Virginia. I am using that state as place of birth, lacking any other at this point [28 March 2007];that place seems reasonable. But I am using the date of 1785, from the Old Pendleton District Genealogy, as a birth date, which seems to fit the generational patterns. I expect there was an older Nancy Arnold, which the compiler of that One World Tree database confused with this Nancy Arnold, wife of Jmes Gaines.