Jessee - Nannie J.
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review Saturday, 12 September 1874
Mrs. Jessee, wife of James Jessee, died on the 5th, after an illness of five or six months. She leaves a husband and one child, and a large circle of friends to mourn their loss.
(*Nannie J. Jessee)
(*Death shown as Sept. 6, 1874 on tombstone)
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Thursday, 12 March 1874
Died near New Ross on Wednesday, the 4th of March, 1874, at 10 o’clock a.m., Mrs. Nancy B. Jesse, wife of James B. Jesse, in the 66th year of her age.
Mrs. Jesse was born in Russell County, Virginia on the 25th day of April, 1798, and was married to James B. Jesse on the 30th day of September, 1827. They came to this county in October, 1829, and settled on Wilson Browning’s land until 1836 when they moved to the place where she departed this life. She joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1823, thus having been a member of the church for fifty one years. During her short illness, which has terminated her useful life on earth, being naturally a woman of ardent affections, she often expressed the fear lest she should not have grace sufficient to enable her from the heart cheerfully and with unwavering faith to part from her dear children and beloved companion, resigning them all to the care of a covenant keeping God. But as the time for her departure drew nigh she called them all to her bed side, and taking them each by the hand, she gave them her parting counsels, urging them to live for God and Heaven, and bade them adieu with the same calmness and sweet composure as though she was leaving them but for the visit of an evening.
Both Nancys - both wives of James and died same year but not sure if same - doubt it but ???