Nancy Jane Heck

Nancy Jane was born in 1860 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Nancy Jane's father was Adam Stewart Heck and her mother was Mary Smith.  Her paternal grandparents were Jacob Heck and Barbara Kilmer. She had four brothers and three sisters, named Louis D., James A., Charles, George A., Sarah A., Cordelia and Martha E..  She was the oldest of the eight children. She had two half-brothers and a half-sister, named John S., William H. and Dulcena.