Nancy GORMAN^[1]

Abt 1816 - 1890  (~ 74 years)

• Name	Nancy GORMAN  [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Born	Abt 1816	Georgia USA
  Gender	Female
  ADOP	1877	Freestone County, Texas, USA
  		Adoption record for Samantha ANDERSON (nee CARROLL) and John + Nancy TIPPEN Know all men by these presents, that I Samantha Anderson for and in consideration as herein after set forth have this day given to John Tippen and Nancy Tippen - his wife, my three children names as follows: John. Mary and William and I hereby agree that the said John Tippen and wife shall have full control and management of said children as if they were their own, and to adopt them as their own if they see fit. Now the consideration of said gift is that the said John Tippen and wife agrees to take care of said children as they should be, and to see that they are properly brought up, and they agree to treat them as their own children, and also I not being able to take care of said children as they should will turn them over to the said John and Nancy Tippen that they may be properly cared for. Samantha Anderson Witnesses: C. Y. Mansing and R. T. Jones
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  ADOP	1880	Freestone County, Texas, USA
  		Adoption by Nancy TIPPEN (nee GORMAN) of Rachel Samantha ANDERSON (nee CARROL) children after the death of Nancy's husband, John TIPPEN Know all men by these presents, that I Nancy Tippen surviving widow of John Tippen deceased, and resident of said county and state, having no children or child of my own and being affectionately attached to Mary Ann, William and Rebecca Anderson and John Anderson, children of Samantha Anderson, also of said county and state, and alsining? to adopt said children of the said Samantha Anderson as my legal heirs, as it was the intention of my said husband John Tippen dead to have done for himself and jointly with myself adopting them as such, do therefore in accordance with the statute of said state in such case made and provided, here by this solemn act of writing for myself deliberately and firmly adopt the said Mary Ann Anderson, William Anderson and Rebecca Anderson and John Anderson as my true and lawful heirs and giving to them the name of myself and said deceased husband, to wit: Mary Ann Tippen, William Tippen, and Rebecca Tippen and John Tippen to have and to enjoy the right to assert all the rights, benefits, and privileges of legal heirs of myself both in love and equity, as fully, truly and perfectly in every respect, as if they were my own children and born unto my said deceased husband and myself during our marriage In testimony whereof I I have hereunto set my hand and seal using a ? for ? on this the 8th day of May 1880. Nancy Tippen
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  Died	12 Mar 1890	Buried in Tippen Cemetery Freestone County, Texas USA
  Buried	West, McLennan County, Texas, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I104	Rosita's Family
  Last Modified	8 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	John Spragins GORMAN,   b. 1770, Edgefield, Edgefield, South Carolina, United States ,   d. 1820, Warren, Georgia, United States  (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Nancy Flewellen GIBSON,   b. Nov 1779, Wilkes, Georgia ,   d. 8 Dec 1850, Goliad, Texas, United States  (Age ~ 71 years)
  Married	20 December 1794	Warren, Georgia, United States
  Family ID	F488	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	John A. TIPPEN,   b. 26 Nov 1825, Pendleton, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA ,   d. 05 Apr 1880, Upper Keechi Creek, Freestone, Texas, USA  (Age 54 years)
  Married	Bet. 1846–1850	Texas, USA
  Children	1. John W. Anderson TIPPEN,   b. 8 May 1880, Texas, USA ,   d. 15 April 1932, Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA  (Age 51 years)  [Adopted]
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2022
  Family ID	F225	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	PUGH
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2022
  Family ID	F227	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	William M. SPENCER
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2022
  Family ID	F226	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S70] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. [S-449534351] 1860 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Year: 1860; Census Place: Karnes, Texas; Roll: M653_1299; Page: 19; Image: 42; Family History Library Film: 805299. [S-443551633] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S-449514151] 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), Year: 1880; Census Place: Freestone, Texas; Roll: 1304; Family History Film: 1255304; Page: 600A; Enumeration District: 057. [S-449490526] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Year: 1850; Census Place: Goliad, Goliad, Texas; Roll: M432_910; Page: 320A; Image: 625.