Isaac Dancy
Isaac Dancy, for whom Dancyville was named, was born 13 Aug 1783, The son of Edward and Rebecca Dancy in Charles City County, Virginia. His first wife was Sarah Tyler who died 11 October 1822, in Williamson County, Tennessee. Sarah and Isaac were married 24 Dec 1802 and their children were:
Edward - b. 27 Dec 1805 - never married.
Rebecca - b. 21 Jul 1809 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia; d. 19 Aug 1871 in Haywood County, TN.
Married (1) Rueben Mays, 21 Jan 1828, in Williamson County,TN. Married (2) Abner
H. Martin, 1840, in Haywood County, TN.
Martha - b. 1 Jan 1811, in Dinwiddie County, VA; d. 13 Oct 1861 in Pine Bluff, AK. Married Robert
Lemon (son of John and Hannah Dancy Lemon of N.C.)Sarah - b. 8 Mar 1815. Married _______ Germany.
Elizabeth - b. 15 Oct 1817 in Williamson County,TN.; d. 1893 in Star City, AK. Married (1) William
Lay - 1834 - Dancyville, TN.; Married (2) Samuel Smith of Middlesex, N.C. at Star City,
AK.Mildred E. b. 1 Oct 1818 in Williamson County,TN.; d. in Lavaca County, TX.; Married Allen
Garrison Lay (brother to William Lay who married her sister Elizabeth.) Allen was
born in Georgia and died in Lavaca County, TX.
Isaac and Sarah had two other children that died shortly after birth. It is highly probable that Sarah died in childbirth.
Isaac Dancy and his second wife, Mary Lamb Dancy, were married 15 Dec 1823. Mary Lamb Dancy was born July 19, 1793, in Virginia. They came from Williamson County to Haywood County c 1831.
Tradition has it, the community was established, in 1837, and named Dancyville, for the purpose of shipping freight to the town, and Isaac, a blacksmith, was the town's only business.. Wholesale goods for the first merchants, Carpenter and Southerland, were shipped from Saint Louis, to the new address, Dancyville.
The first DANCYVILLE Post Office, called DANCEY'S, with Isaac as the postmaster, was set up in his home in 1833.. He was not, however, the first settler. In the 1820's came the Emry, Johnson, Jones, Koonce, McFarland, Kerr and Neal families and there were probably others. The first mention of the town name, Dancyville, was found in the Court Minutes of 1838, when a committee to view and mark out a road from the Fayette County line, through Dancyville, was appointed. Isaac was included as one of the eight men on this committee.
Isaac died August 1863 and Wife Mary died September 6, 1859. They are both buried in the Dancy-Scott Family Cemetery, Dancyville, Tennessee.
Isaac and Mary's eight children were:
William Lamb Dancy - b. 19 Sep 1824, in Williamson County, TN. - d. 3 Oct 1846- unmarried.
Margaret Dancy - b. 15 Jan 1826, in Williamson County, TN. , married Jesse Martin (brother of
Abner H. Martin who married Rebecca Dancy.)Susan Dancy - b. 30 Apr 1828. Married Warren Wyatt.
Stephen Dancy - b. 2 Oct 1829, in Williamson County,TN. - d. 2 Sep 1831
John Henry Dancy - b. 26 Oct 1831 in Williamson County, TN. Married (1) Louisa Jane Kerr,
27 Feb 1856. Louisa was born 5 Nov 1834 in TN and was the daughter of
Francis Bradley Kerr and Ann Reid Neal. (Francis B. Kerr was born 27 Feb 1801
in South Carolina and died in 1885 in Fayette County, TN. Ann Reid Neal was
born 1806 in Sumner County, TN. and died 30 Aug 1865. They are both buried
in the Dancyville United Methodist Cemetery.)
J.H. Dancy married (2) Mary Jane Harrison, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth
Harrison. There were no children from this union.Mary Dancy - b. 11 Nov 1833, in Dancyville, TN. d. Unknown
Nancy Ann Dancy -b. 5 Jun 1835 - d. 18 July 1891 - Married Thomas A. Scott 5 July 1861.
Alexander Dancy - b. 11 Mar 1837 in Dancyville,TN. (Killed by his captain during the Civil War)
Known Migration Path of Isaac Dancy
Born, Charles City County, Virginia - 1783
Dinwiddie County, Virginia - at least 1809 - 1811
Williamson County, Tennessee - at least 1815 - 1831
Lived in Haywood County, Tennessee 1831 - 1863
ISAAC DANCY FAMILY
in the 1840 Federal Census of Haywood County, Tennessee1840 Census Page 381
Head of Family
DANCY, ISAAC
FREE WHITE MALES FREE WHITE FEMALES
1 0 to 5 years 1 0 to 5 years 1 5 to 10 years 2 10 to 15 years 1 15 to 20 years 1 50 to 60 years 1 50 to 60 years
MALE SLAVES FEMALE SLAVES
3 0 to 10 years 2 0 to 10 years 1 10 to 24 years 1 10 to 24 years 1 24 to 36 years 1 24 to 36 years 1 36 to 55 years* Number of household engaged in Occupations: 7 in AGR. and 1 in MFG.
In the 1850 Haywood County Tennessee Census, District 2
Isaac Dancy (67)
Mary (57) Wife
John (18) Child
Ann (14) Child
Alexander (12) Child
Margaret Dancy Martin (24)¹
Mary (5)²
Samuel (3)²¹Wife of Jesse F. Martin
²Children of Margaret Martin
In the 1860 Haywood County Tennessee Census, District 2
By 1860, Isaac Dancy, following a stroke, had been adjudged incompetent to manage his affairs, and was living in the household of
son-in-law and daughter, Abner and Rebecca Martin. The 1860 census record for that household follows:110-99. Martin, A. H., 50, farmer, tn; Rebecca, 50, tn; George W., 19, farmer, tn; Isaac B., 18, tn; Sarah N., 16, tn; Elizer A., 12, tn; Wm. A., 11, tn; Harriet A., 9, tn; Dancy, Isaac, 78, , 1500, va
Note: Isaac's second wife, Mary Lamb Dancy died - September 6, 1859
* See the Profile of Polly Dancy
See the Profile of John Henry Dancy - 1877
Diary of Louisa Jane Kerr Dancy - 1869
Inquisition - Isaac Dancy - 1859
Hearing - Isaac Dancy - 1859
Estate Settlement - Isaac Dancy Property - 1870
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