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- LEVI (born 24 may 1806, died 7 May 1865), buried Friendship Cemetery at Springdale, Ark., married Nancy Graham (born 1817, the daughterofWilliam and Nancy Graham and Grand-daughter of Old Peter and Nancy Graham).Their children listed from Bible records in possession of Mrs NellieHickman. Pinkey G. born 5 Dec 1833, married Lucy Walker; Erwin R, born 20Jan, 1835, died 1838; Harrison A. born 28 Sept. 1837 , died 1841;JohnCarter born 29 Dec.1839, married Annie Goodman; Jasper Newton born 3 May1842, died 5 Mar 1863; Baby born 15 May 1844 died 19 Jun 1844; Saraptaborn17 Sept 1845, married Robert Sherrod Anderson; Stephen born 5 Mar 1848, married,1st, Mary Lynch and 2nd, Sarah (Hartley) Yarnell; Drindaborn15 Sept 1850, died 1858; Baby son born 25 Jan 1853 died 9 Feb1853;Martha Jane, born 11 Sept 1855, died Apr 1866; Wesley born 20 Jan1858,married Nancy White ( daughter of Hirman Carrol White and Mahulda QuintonWhite); Tabitha Agnes, born 6 Jun 1860, married Charles Jefferson Hancock (sonof Enock M. and Elizabeth Walker Hancock); Lucinda Josphine, born 19Apr1863, married Paschal Graham (son of James Ship Graham and Rebecca JanPatton Graham), 2nd to George A Hancock (brother to Charles JeffersonHancock).
Levi and Nancy Graham also raised an orphaned child named Elizabeth Graham, b. 17 Aug 1837, d. 1928. She was a niece of Nancy Graham,beingthe daughter of Peter Graham who died shortly after 1840, in Taney Co. ,Mo. This Peter Graham was born 1812-1814, and is thought to have marriedagirl named Rachel. Peter was the son of William and Leah(Boyd) Graham.(This William was the son of the original Peter and Nancy Graham who firstcameto Ark, in 1838.) Peter had four children; Simpson, b. 1832; Rebecca,b.1835, m. to Miacha Woolsey; Elizabeth, b. 1837, who never married; andCharlesL., b. 1840; d. 1862. These children were scattered among their auntsanduncles in Washington County after their parents died, Charles living withhis grandfather William in 1860.
Elizabeth never married although she had five children. It is said that she was an outstanding person and mother. She was supposed tohave said she married and had two sons and the husband left her so shenever trusted men again.
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