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Source: Williamson County, Tennessee court records (TSLA microfilm), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed as a Pleas and Quarter estate-division file (not a divorce, as a RootsWeb page labelled it). The files name a son William, a son John and a daughter Lucretia (Mrs. Charles W. Crouch); that this William is Colonel William Nash of Kaufman County, Texas, and this John is John D. "Jack" Nash is Likely (tree and secondary accounts), not proved. Names of the enslaved people are read from handwriting and are uncertain where marked in the private account. Further parties tagged on 4 Oct 2026: Lucrecia Nash (1810–1844); Charles W. Crouch (Lucretia (Mrs Charles W.) Crouch and her husband, named in the jacket, petition, report and decree of the estate file).
Evidence for: Williamson County, Tennessee, Pleas and Quarter Sessions: estate file of Dempsey Nash (jacket 'Children: William Nash, John Nash, Lucretia Crouch (Mrs. Charles W.)'); petition of William, John and Charles W. Crouch with his wife Lucretia; commissioners' report 11 July 1833; decree January 1834
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Source: Williamson County, Tennessee court records (TSLA microfilm), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: A docket wrapper carrying only a label. The file names a son William, a son John and a daughter Lucretia (Mrs. Charles W. Crouch); that William is Colonel William Nash of Kaufman County, Texas and John is John D. 'Jack' Nash is Likely (tree and secondary accounts), not proved. The file's petition, report and decree list enslaved people by first name and value; those pages are captioned as an estate division.
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Source: Williamson County, Tennessee court records (TSLA microfilm), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: A docket wrapper carrying only a label. The file names a son William, a son John and a daughter Lucretia (Mrs. Charles W. Crouch); that William is Colonel William Nash of Kaufman County, Texas and John is John D. 'Jack' Nash is Likely (tree and secondary accounts), not proved. The file's petition, report and decree list enslaved people by first name and value; those pages are captioned as an estate division.
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Source: Williamson County, Tennessee court records (TSLA microfilm), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: A docket wrapper carrying only a label. The file names a son William, a son John and a daughter Lucretia (Mrs. Charles W. Crouch); that William is Colonel William Nash of Kaufman County, Texas and John is John D. 'Jack' Nash is Likely (tree and secondary accounts), not proved. The file's petition, report and decree list enslaved people by first name and value; those pages are captioned as an estate division.
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Source: Williamson County, Tennessee court records (TSLA microfilm), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: A docket wrapper carrying only a label. The file names a son William, a son John and a daughter Lucretia (Mrs. Charles W. Crouch); that William is Colonel William Nash of Kaufman County, Texas and John is John D. 'Jack' Nash is Likely (tree and secondary accounts), not proved. The file's petition, report and decree list enslaved people by first name and value; those pages are captioned as an estate division.
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Source: Williamson County, Tennessee court records (TSLA microfilm), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed as a Pleas and Quarter estate-division file (not a divorce, as a RootsWeb page labelled it). The files name a son William, a son John and a daughter Lucretia (Mrs. Charles W. Crouch); that this William is Colonel William Nash of Kaufman County, Texas, and this John is John D. "Jack" Nash is Likely (tree and secondary accounts), not proved. Names of the enslaved people are read from handwriting and are uncertain where marked in the private account. Further parties tagged on 4 Oct 2026: Lucrecia Nash (1810–1844); Charles W. Crouch (Lucretia (Mrs Charles W.) Crouch and her husband, named in the jacket, petition, report and decree of the estate file).
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Source: Williamson County, Tennessee court records (TSLA microfilm), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed as a Pleas and Quarter estate-division file (not a divorce, as a RootsWeb page labelled it). The files name a son William, a son John and a daughter Lucretia (Mrs. Charles W. Crouch); that this William is Colonel William Nash of Kaufman County, Texas, and this John is John D. "Jack" Nash is Likely (tree and secondary accounts), not proved. Names of the enslaved people are read from handwriting and are uncertain where marked in the private account. The page is the end of the petition, with bleed-through.
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Source: Williamson County, Tennessee court records (TSLA microfilm), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed as a Pleas and Quarter estate-division file (not a divorce, as a RootsWeb page labelled it). The files name a son William, a son John and a daughter Lucretia (Mrs. Charles W. Crouch); that this William is Colonel William Nash of Kaufman County, Texas, and this John is John D. "Jack" Nash is Likely (tree and secondary accounts), not proved. Names of the enslaved people are read from handwriting and are uncertain where marked in the private account. Further parties tagged on 4 Oct 2026: Lucrecia Nash (1810–1844); Charles W. Crouch (Lucretia (Mrs Charles W.) Crouch and her husband, named in the jacket, petition, report and decree of the estate file).
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Source: Williamson County, Tennessee court records (TSLA microfilm), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed as a Pleas and Quarter estate-division file (not a divorce, as a RootsWeb page labelled it). The files name a son William, a son John and a daughter Lucretia (Mrs. Charles W. Crouch); that this William is Colonel William Nash of Kaufman County, Texas, and this John is John D. "Jack" Nash is Likely (tree and secondary accounts), not proved. Names of the enslaved people are read from handwriting and are uncertain where marked in the private account. Further parties tagged on 4 Oct 2026: Lucrecia Nash (1810–1844); Charles W. Crouch (Lucretia (Mrs Charles W.) Crouch and her husband, named in the jacket, petition, report and decree of the estate file).
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![Williamson County, Tennessee: the signature page of the commissioners' report of 11 July 1833 on the estate of Dempsey Nash (signers read as John L. McEwen [?] and William Whitfield [?], among others).](/media/eecd2b332fb50/display.jpg)
Source: Williamson County, Tennessee court records (TSLA microfilm), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed as a Pleas and Quarter estate-division file (not a divorce, as a RootsWeb page labelled it). The files name a son William, a son John and a daughter Lucretia (Mrs. Charles W. Crouch); that this William is Colonel William Nash of Kaufman County, Texas, and this John is John D. "Jack" Nash is Likely (tree and secondary accounts), not proved. Names of the enslaved people are read from handwriting and are uncertain where marked in the private account.
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Source: Williamson County, Tennessee court records (TSLA microfilm), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed as a Pleas and Quarter estate-division file (not a divorce, as a RootsWeb page labelled it). The files name a son William, a son John and a daughter Lucretia (Mrs. Charles W. Crouch); that this William is Colonel William Nash of Kaufman County, Texas, and this John is John D. "Jack" Nash is Likely (tree and secondary accounts), not proved. Names of the enslaved people are read from handwriting and are uncertain where marked in the private account. This ledger page was not transcribed.
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Source: Williamson County, Tennessee court records (TSLA microfilm), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed as a Pleas and Quarter estate-division file (not a divorce, as a RootsWeb page labelled it). The files name a son William, a son John and a daughter Lucretia (Mrs. Charles W. Crouch); that this William is Colonel William Nash of Kaufman County, Texas, and this John is John D. "Jack" Nash is Likely (tree and secondary accounts), not proved. Names of the enslaved people are read from handwriting and are uncertain where marked in the private account. The day of the decree reads [7th?] January 1834. Further parties tagged on 4 Oct 2026: Lucrecia Nash (1810–1844); Charles W. Crouch (Lucretia (Mrs Charles W.) Crouch and her husband, named in the jacket, petition, report and decree of the estate file).
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Record: 1860 United States Federal Census
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Record: 1870 United States Federal Census
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Record: 1880 United States Federal Census
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Source: Find a Grave, memorial 37481123, photo added by Julie Oliver / Scott Patrick, 25 May 2009; accessed 7 Oct 2026.
How it is shown: Photograph as published on Find a Grave; no crop or retouch.
Keep in mind: The stone reads died June 30, 1898; the memorial's summary gives June 29.
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