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- Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: William N Nye
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 18 Aug 1805
Birth Place: Sandwich, Massachusetts
Father Name: Allen Nye
Mother Name: Rebekah
Texas, Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2011
Name: Eliza Duncan
Marriage Date: 18 Oct 1837
Marriage Place: Matagorda, Texas, USA
Spouse: William N. Nye
Source: Texas Marriages, 1814-1909
In her letter handwritten 4 years before her death, Elizabeth Nye, made comments about Frances Elizabeth Schultz, wife of Thomas Carter Nye. This was Abel Pierce's mother. In the letter I am attempting to "authenticate", remarks are made about similarities between Virginia Lynn and my granddaughter Emily and grandmother Schultz. (Sterling Norman Sorrell)
Not treated in the attachments is the "fact" that Thomas Carter Nye was born in 1844 in the Republic of TEXAS and his mother died in Childbirth of her baby Thomas Carter Nye. In early 1844, the father ( of Thomas Carter Nye) was lost in a storm in Matagorda Bay, leaving two children as orphans - the youngest being Thomas Carter Nye. A step mother "nanny" came forward to be formally appointed guardian of the orphans by the local court in Matagorda County. She is said to have been a BRITISH immigrant, probably a member of the little Episcopal Church in Matagorda. So, when Thomas Carter Nye married Miss Schultz it was in the church community in Matagorda, and there were already " lost-at-sea " graves of Nyes in the cemetery there. Left to be researched is the place of birth or date of immigration of Miss Schultz, a German.
Thomas Carter Nye served in the Confederate uniform, even-though his father and grandfather had migrated to Texas during the Republic from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Nevertheless, it can be demonstrated as fact that the NYES in Texas from the area around Barnstable kept in touch with New England Nyes and friends for many, many years even into the 19th century.
After moving to the village of Cotulla, inland, west of the Gulf of Mexico, then to Laredo, a village south of Cotulla; after bearing 11 children, grandmother Schultz died in Laredo, but was buried in Matagorda in the cemetery there. Thomas Carter Nye survived (stayed in Laredo) as the widower and he died soon after grandmother Schultz, at a time (i.e. by which time} his son Abel Pierce Nye had been "put away". The family farm was lost in the legal debacles suffered before 1920, and the now abandoned wife of Abel Pierce, with 3 children carried-on as a beneficiary of the largesse of the Episcopal Church community sitting only 200 feet from the Nye house - also- a congregation named "Christ Church".
1860 United States Federal Census
Name: Elizabeth Harvey
Age: 65
Birth Year: abt 1795
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Russia
Home in 1860: Matagorda, Matagorda, Texas
Post Office: Matagorda
Family Number: 222
Elizabeth Harvey 65
Thomas Nye 16
WILLIAM N. NYE
William N. Nye was born in Maine (Massachusetts) in 1805, and died in 1844, when his ship was lost in Matagorda Bay. He emigrated to the county in January of 1835, and received land certificate #146 for one league and labor of land.
He married Elizabeth Duncan on October 18, 1837, at Matagorda. She was the daughter of James Duncan, who came from Pennsylvania in 1835. Elizabeth was born on August 1, 1813, and died December 4, 1844. Her funeral services were held in Christ Church at Matagorda.
William and Elizabeth had two sons: William Maynard, born October 13, 1841, and Thomas Carter, born May 17, 1844. William M. died at Refugio in June of 1890, and Thomas at Laredo. On July 22, 1866, Thomas married Frances Elizabeth Schultz, daughter of Ferdinand and Sarah E. Schultz. Frances was born February 9, 1848, and died in 1912. She was baptized in Christ Church, Matagorda. Her parents were from Prussia and had two other daughters and two sons: Mary Ann, born 1850; Alice L., born 1853; Albert, born 1854; and Henry, born 1857.
After William and Elizabeth died, their two sons were baptized in Christ Church, and Elizabeth Harvey, a native of Russia petitioned the court to allow her to raise Thomas Carter. Elizabeth died on May 6, 1882, and was buried at Matagorda, where she lived with Thomas and his family.
During the Civil War, both William and Thomas served in Company D, Sixth Texas Regiment of the Matagorda Coast Guards, which had been formed in 1861 to patrol the coast around Matagorda.
Thomas and Frances had seven children: Walter H., born October 5, 1867, died July 14, 1874; Thomas Nye, born January 20, 1870, died January 21, 1870; Frank William, born January 8, 1871; Henry, born October 31, 1872, died January 8, 1881; Annie Elizabeth, born July 19, 1873; Abel Pierce, born April 11, 1878; and Florence Elizabeth, born August 27, 1880, died April 2, 1882.
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1805 - 1844 (38 years)
