Biographical Data
Basic Identification
Gender: female
Ethnicity:
Immigration:
Attributed Race: black
Free or Enslaved: unknown
Birth & Family
Birth Date: c.1850/00/00
Birthplace: Virginia
Mother:
Father:
1st Spouse: Elam Estes (married 1881)
2nd Spouse:
Age Details
Age: 50
Age Group: adult (20-59)
Life Details
Occupation(s): nurse/servant to Otey and Scott families
Last Church: Jackson Street Methodist Church
Military Service:
Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia
Last Address: 806 Court Street (Scott residence)
Death
Death Date: 1900/12/29
Death Note: none
Place of Death: home
Cause of Death: heart disease
Burial & Undertaking
Burial Date: 1900/12/30
Funeral Home: Diuguid
Indigent?: private interment
Gravesite and Grave Marker Data
Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: none
Section:
unknown
Confirmation Source for Location:
Grave Marker Erector(s):
Confirmation Source for Interment: Diuguid records
Others In Same Plot (T0341)
Obituary and Biographical Detials
Domestic servant of Mr. & Mrs. James A. Scott; lived in their residence in 1900 census
Servant for Kirkwood and Lucy K. Otey in 1880 census, living at their residence on Clay Street
Member of Good Samaritan Lodge
Named one of her sons “Kirkwood Otey Estes” (who was butler for Mr. and Mrs. James A. Scott in 1900)
Apparently Elam Estes either died 1890-1900 or Nannie divorced him 1890-1900. I cannot find him in Diuguid.
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Recollections of Mrs. Anne Norvell Otey Scott (printed in Lynchburg News on 13 March 1960):
“I dea[r]ly loved my black mammy who ‘spoiled me to death’ and worshipped M[ar]se Kirk, as she called him. She was married in our parlor and lovingly were her remains kept in my home until time to take her to the church she so loved, Jackson Street Methodist.
“Nannie Clay was gentle, kind and noble, always ready with God–given patience to bear whatever vicissitudes sent from Heaven. She belonged to and was born on General Clay’s plantation, Roseland, now owned by Mr. William E. Graves, and he recently told me the slave quarters where she was born are still standing.
“She was set free when about sixteen and lived continuously in the Otey family for more than 50 years.”
