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Josephine “Aunt Jenk” Slack Nunnally

Birth	:	5 Dec 1849 Cass County, Illinois, USA
Death	:	1 Oct 1933 Hartford, Warren County, Iowa, USA
Burial	:	Hartford Cemetery, Hartford, Warren County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.4570007, -93.4049988
Inscription	:	daughter of William & Mary Greathouse Slack wife of L E Nunnally
Description	:	By David Earle Tyler: I suppose that Aunt Jenk got her nickname from a younger sibling who couldn't say "Josephine." I was only 5 years old when she died, so I don't remember her well. She was small in stature, thin, and had sharp facial features. Josephine taught school for a number of years. She is listed as a teacher in the U.S./Iowa census of 1870. In a pamphlet about the Parmelee cabin. It is reported that she taught three short terms of school in the west end of the cabin during 1865 (she was 16). On 15 September 1878,... Read More	By David Earle Tyler: I suppose that Aunt Jenk got her nickname from a younger sibling who couldn't say "Josephine." I was only 5 years old when she died, so I don't remember her well. She was small in stature, thin, and had sharp facial features. Josephine taught school for a number of years. She is listed as a teacher in the U.S./Iowa census of 1870. In a pamphlet about the Parmelee cabin. It is reported that she taught three short terms of school in the west end of the cabin during 1865 (she was 16). On 15 September 1878, Josephine married L. B. Nunnally, a widower with three children. In the 1880 census, she was 31; L. B. was 48. The children's names and ages were listed as Edgar, 20; Mary, 16; and George, 13. Mr. Nunnally and Aunt Jenk had no additional children. L. B. owned and operated a drug and dry goods store on the southwest comer of Vine and Elm Streets in Hartford [See ledger of alcohol and poisons kept by Mr. Nunnally from 1881-1901]. The old building still stands as of this date (1999) and has housed many businesses over the years. It was a cafe, run by Delmar & Willard Barr, when I was growing up (Plate III, Fig. 8). The Nunnallys lived in a beautifully styled house just across the street to the east from their store. It had a front porch with two pillars and a roof that formed a small balcony. Two large maple trees were at each comer of the front of the house (Plate III, Fig. 9). Aunt Jenk must have been well schooled, probably most of it on her own. She and two of her sisters, Cornelia and Elizabeth, authored a book of short stories entitled Out of the Past by Sisters Three. The stories are well written and characteristic in style and content for popular literature of that time. In August of 1933, Aunt Jenk fell on the steps of the south entrance to the Agricultural Building on the Iowa State Fair grounds and broke her hip. As with so many older people of that time, the fracture was lethal and she died a few weeks later. Visiting at her home with my parents on the evening before her funeral was my first experience with viewing a dead person. I vividly remember seeing her lying in the casket in the front room of her home. The color gray comes to mind, as I see her lying there. I don't think she was dressed in gray, but her casket and, maybe, the lining (although they were usually white) were probably gray. She seemed so awfully old and so unmoving. The house deteriorated after her death, with renters taking a heavy toll. It was eventually torn down (in the '50s, I believe) and replaced with a much less grand dwelling.

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Josephine “Aunt Jenk” Slack Nunnally's memorial is located at: Hartford Cemetery, Hartford, Warren County, USA.
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Josephine “Aunt Jenk” Slack Nunnally death on 1 Oct 1933 in Hartford, Warren County, Iowa, USA
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Latitude: 41.4570007
Longitude: -93.4049988

Family Members:

Parent

William Slack

(1819 - 1873)

Mary A. Greathouse Slack

(1823 - 1889)

Spouse

Lewis Byram Nunnally

(1833 - 1909)

Siblings

Catherine Margaret “Kate” Slack Ferguson

(1844 - 1936)

Rebecca “Aunt Becky” Slack Harvey

(1850 - 1895)

John Uriah “Bud” Slack

(1851 - 1939)

Susan Cornelia “Shug” Slack Switzer

(1855 - 1942)

William G Slack

(1856 - 1871)

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