Thursday's child has far to go

Nancy Lee Thursday -
courtesy Bill Stinnett

I first heard about my great-great-grandmother Nancy Lee Thursday from my cousin Bill. She was his great-grandmother and he shared this picture of her. One of his sister's bore her name.

Neither Bill nor I were able to find much information about Nancy Lee. In fact the only documentation he had was her name on his grandfather's death certificate which gave her maiden name and Texas as her birthplace. Her son William's census records most consistently concur with Texas, the others' varying between Texas, Arkansas and a generic United States.

I haven't found enough information on the Thursday surname in the United States to even speculate about Nancy Lee's family. My great grandmother once said that her mother was a half-breed Indian and that her father was white. I have searched census records, Dawes Rolls, death certificates, newspaper archives, everything I can find to no avail. I have no oral history that might give more clues. Nancy Lee Thursday's great-great-grandchild indeed has very far to go[1].

[1] Title is a line from a nursery rhyme