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Nancy P. Seckman Biography

 NancyP. Seckman  NANCY P. SECKMAN was bornin Harrison county, Kentucky, August 18, 1814. Her father, James Taylor,and her mother, Katie Bishop, were both born in Maryland, near Snow Hill.They went to Kentucky, when young, were married there, and were well-to-dofarmers. They moved to Illinois in the fall of 1832, when this daughterwas nineteen years old. They brought ten children with them in a prairieschooner, being twenty-one days on the route. They hired a man to bringthem with his five-horse team, and they brought three horses and saddlesof their own. They had a most delightful time, a continual picnic of twenty-onedays, … Read more