The Proeger Family · Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents

Nannie Chenault

Great-grandmother · 1844–1915

Nannie Chenault

TennesseeConfirmed

Great-grandmother · 1844–1915

Born
26 January 1844
Died
14 April 1915
Parents
David Chenault & Louisa Quisenberry
Married
Joseph Daniel Martin
Sources
9

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1844
Born 26 January 1844, Tennessee
her own death certificate S208, and the same day is cut on her headstone S86
Death1915
Died 14 April 1915, 10th Civil District, three miles east of Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee; buried Gallatin Cemetery 16 April S208. ⚠️ The headstone reads the day as APR. 4 S86; the certificate, written at the time, is followed. The earlier about 1849 – 1924 on this card came from a user tree and is withdrawn.
Census1930
The Chenault name appears as a boarder in Nancy's 1930 household
"Chenault, Ermin, 28", a woman boarder, a saleslady in dry goods — corroborating the family connection S27
Census1910
🆕 In 1910, aged 66, still on her own farm with her daughter Emma and her sister-in-law Martha Gillispie, 75 S378.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents
Father: David Chenault Probable confirm or correct →
Parents
Mother: Louisa Quisenberry Probable confirm or correct → S333S97S206
Marriage
Wife of Joseph Daniel Martin, mother of Nancy Louise Martin S12
Marriage1900
🆕 Widowed by 1900 and farming her own farm in District 10, Sumner County; mother of 8 children, 7 living; her parents both born in Kentucky. At home were her daughters E. L., a school teacher, M. E., a music teacher, and Nanie, and her son John, born August 1880 S377; added 24 September 2026.

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Nannie Chenault · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

9 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S12FamilySearch Tree public pages, no login required for deceased persons — William Harry Proeger KC1N-799, Aileane Marie Silva L9GZ-NDP, William Leonard Proeger L7GK-VBK, Queen Anne Proeger LHQW-W1L — ancestors.familysearch.org. User-contributed; event lists are treated as PROBABLE unless separately sourced.
  2. S271930 US Census, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee, lines 97–100 — Timberman, Nancy (52, widowed, head, high-school teacher); Timberman, Louise M. (13, daughter); Martin, Emma (59, sister, public-school teacher); Chenault, Ermin (28, female, boarder, saleslady in dry goods). FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:SP7V-TVZ. Page image read directly. The single page that proves the Martin maiden name from a record rather than a tree. Corrected 26 September 2026: the boarder was first read as a man, “Ernest Chernault”, as FamilySearch indexed him. A second scan of the same sheet, Ancestry record 66161418 (1930 census, ED 83-3, sheet 29B, line 100, image 4547930_00097), set beside it reads Chenault, Ermin, sex F, a sales lady in dry goods. The Chenault link to the family is unchanged.
  3. S86Joseph D. Martin and Nannie G. Martin — double headstone. Member-submitted photograph dated 4/2012, from the Coffman family tree shared by Earl's uncle David. Re-read off the full-resolution image, enlarged, on 17 September 2026. Inscribed JOSEPH D. MARTIN, SEPT. 22, 1832 – SEPT. 28, 1899 and NANNIE G. MARTIN, JAN. 26, 1844 – APR. 4, 1915. ⚠️ This source previously transcribed the stone wrongly, and the error is recorded here rather than quietly overwritten. It gave the husband's middle initial as a C and put his death a decade too early, and built an argument on that: that the stone contradicted the family tree, and that the tree's "Daniel" and "1899" had no record behind them. The opposite is true. The monument plainly reads D. and 1899, so it corroborates the tree on both the middle initial and the death year — which makes it evidence for "Daniel", not against it. Two of the wife's figures were also out by a digit each (Jan. 26 not 28, Apr. 4 not 14). A misread document is worse than no document, because it is quoted with confidence. Their identification as Nancy Louise Martin's parents is still from the tree [S30] and remains Probable — a stone proves two people and their dates, not a parentage.
  4. S971850 US Federal Census — David Chenault household, District 3, Sumner County, Tennessee. David Chenault, 50, b. KY; Louisa, 39, b. KY; Nancy, 6, b. TN (Nannie G. Chenault); plus 9 other children. NARA M432, Roll 897, Page 150b. Ancestry collection 8054, record 6857140. Shows the full Chenault household with Nancy age 6 — Nannie G. Chenault. Also records David Chenault household in Sumner Co., TN.
  5. S2061860 U.S. Federal Census — David Chenault household, District 3, Sumner County, Tennessee (P.O. Gallatin). Ancestry record 22605797; page 48, dwelling 323. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. David Chenault, 60, farmer, born Kentucky, RE $52,600, PE $31,120; Louisa, 48, born Kentucky; Nancy, 15; with Harvy 23, [Lucy?] 12, Milton 11, Mariah 8 and William 6. 🔑 Nannie at fifteen in her father's house, ten years after [S97]. ⚠ The household may continue on page 49 (not fetched); one sister's name is not certain.
  6. S208Tennessee death certificate, Sumner County, Reg. No. 41 — Mrs Nannie C. Martin, 14 April 1915. Ancestry record 320718. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Mrs Nannie C. Martin, widow, born 26 January 1844, died 14 April 1915, 10th Civil District, three miles east of Gallatin; father D. Chenault (Ky.); mother "Lizzie Eastberry" (Ky.); buried Gallatin Cemetery 16 April; informant J. [R.?] Martin. 🔑 A primary record of Nannie's birth and death. ⚠ The mother's surname is hard to read. Nannie's card now carries these dates, 26 January 1844 – 14 April 1915, replacing a user-tree estimate a decade too late.
  7. S333A. C. Quisenberry, Memorials of the Quisenberry Family (1900), p. 67. Ancestry collection 62282, image 4297925964. Louisa Quisenberry, born 29 September 1811, married David Chenault 25 October 1827; children include “7. Nancy, m. Martin”. A compiled secondary source, not an original record.
  8. S3771900 U.S. Federal Census — Mrs Nan Martin household, District 10, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 118, sheet 12-B, lines 60–64). Ancestry record 61310365. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Mrs Nan Martin, born January 1844, 56, widowed, mother of 8 children, 7 living, farming her own farm free of mortgage; her father and mother both born in Kentucky; daughters E. L. (b. Aug 1870, school teacher), M. E. (b. Aug 1874, music teacher) and Nanie (b. Nov 1878); son John, b. Aug 1880. Kentucky-born parents fit David Chenault and Louisa Quisenberry, both from Kentucky.
  9. S3781910 U.S. Federal Census — Nannie Martin household, District 10, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 140, sheet 9-B, lines 71–73). Ancestry record 27548369. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Nannie Martin, 66, widowed head, mother of 8 children (7 living), owns her farm free of mortgage; daughter Emma, 31, single; sister-in-law Martha Gillispie, 75, widowed. Ancestry indexes her as Hannah; the image reads Nannie. This sheet gives her parents' birthplaces as Tennessee; the 1900 sheet (S377) says Kentucky.

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