William Nash (1763-1834), was the nephew of Francis Nash, his father being either Thomas or John Nash. His grandfather was John Nash, an immigrant to Virginia from Wales. William was 17, living in Guilford County, North Carolina when he served in the Revolution. He participated in the Battle of Charleston, South Carolina and was among those who formed a battalion of light infantry under Major Armstrong and General Griffith Rutherford. He was among the troops at "Gates Defeat " by Lord Cornwallis near Camden, South Carolina, although he was out of action during this engagement because of sickness.
                After the war he lived in Montgomery County, Virginia, and the southern part of the present state of Kentucky, then called Lincoln County. By 1785, he was one of the earliest inhabitants and on the first tax role of the frontier village of Nashville, named for his uncle just the year before. He was a Justice of the Peace in both Davidson and Rutherford Counties, surveyed the boundary line between those counties, and purchased many land grants from other veterans. Sometime in the late 1820s, when he was in his 50s, William and his family left their home in Rutherford County where he had lived for 18 years and moved further west - this time to Dyer County, where he was again one of the original settlers of a Tennessee county.
            In his very interesting four-page will of 1834, he distributes his lands, slaves, cattle, and his favorite horse, "Walks in Water". His heirs were his wife, Martha "Patsy" Johnson, his two surviving sons, Thomas and William (John and Redmon had died), a daughter Sciota who married John Fain, and several grandchildren. [This will and other information about the Nash family in Tennessee was generously provided by Janie Putnam of Friendship, Tennessee.]
      
       We have no personal records concerning the second William Nash, not even his birth date. He was probably born in Rutherford County before the family moved to Dyer in the mid-1820s. We assume he was living on the property with his mother at the time of his father's death as he was given the responsibility for her and for the home farm. Patsy died the following year. She left him his father's horse "Walk on Water", and many household items. A Bible record names his wife as Melissa S ______ , however an Obion County record shows a William Nash marrying a Frances Redmon in 1834.  His first child, William B. was born in December 1835. He died in 1841 when this son William was only six years old. Other children of this marriage were Margaret E., John, and Thomas J.
      
       William B. Nash served in the Confederate Army and was captured by the Union forces. During his imprisonment (probably in Illinois) there was much illness and death among the prisoners. William, a carpenter, was among the prisoners released, becoming a "Galvanized Yankee". He was selected to direct the work of building Fort Sanders, which later became the city of Laramie, Wyoming. His 27 year old wife, Marina Reddick, died January 15, 1866, while he was still in the west. She was survived by three small children: Margaret, William Buchanan, and Ada Ann. In October, William was mustered out of the army in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and began his long walk home to Tennessee. On January 7, 1867, he married 26-year old (Lydia) Ann Stallings. They had seven children, but only two, Beulah and Thomas Albert,  lived past six years. William died in 1909 at the age of 52, and Ann lived four more years.

            Beulah Nash married John White.  Their three daughters were Luella (who married Malcolm Bell), Helen, and H. Ann (married to a Latham?).  Helen, the only descendent of Beulah whom we have met,  is now the widow of V.C. Brundige and lives in Trenton, Tennessee.
      
       Their son, Thomas Albert Nash (1870-1926), was born in Trenton, Tennessee and spent his youth in the nearby town of Friendship. He went to medical school, probably in Memphis, but when he attended dissecting classes, he "fainted and fell out" (according to his daughter Savannah), so went home to pursue another career. In 1897 he married Mary Edna Kingof Fowlkes. Savannah, was born in 1899. Four years later, when they were expecting another child, the couple separated. Albert tried for several years to overcome the difficulties between himself and Mary Edna, but finally agreed to a divorce. He married Effie _______ and made his home in Plainview, Arkansas where he became the father of Ermine, Clarah Louise, T.A. Jr., Beatrice, James Odell, and William B. Nash. We have been unable to learn more about this second family.

       At the age of ninety, the elder daughter, Savannah May Nash (1899-1993), made a video in which she recalled memories of her grandmother, "Saudie" Box King; her mother, Mary Edna King Nash; and her sister, Tommie Nash Green.  Savannah also survived her husband, Elmer Knight Follis (1892-1969), and four of their seven children. She was a resident of Memphis for almost 70 years and the loving center of a large family including great-great grandchildren.  As family historian, she was the source of much of our information about the Box and Nash families. The Follis children were Thomas Aron (1916-18), Elma LaVera (1918-1981), Mary Louise (1920- ), June Elizabeth (1926-1979), Elmer Knight, Jr. (1928-  ), Joy Marie (1930-1989), and Savannah May (1935- ).
      
       Tommie Leona(1903-1946), the second daughter of the first marriage, married Homer Brieford Greenand made her home in Mobile, Alabama. Their children were Mary Frances (1921- ) and Thomas Nash (1925- ). Stricken with cancer in her thirties, she died in 1946 at the age of 42. She was remembered by her sister as "perfect; having every wonderful personality trait, talent and skill desirable".